Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Territorial Arm – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 July 1947.
Sir Henry Legge-Bourke
, Isle of Ely
12:00,
15 July 1947
asked the Secretary of State for War how many local authorities are refusing to grant facilities to their employees to attend annual training in T.A. camps or other auxiliary forces.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.