Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 October 1947.
Sir Walter Fletcher
, Bury
12:00,
28 October 1947
asked the Secretary of State for War what is the total rent and the rent per unit paid by the War Office for pill-boxes erected to repel the 1940 invasion and for other military purposes; and what proportion of these pill-boxes are being used and for what purposes.
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.
