Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.
Mr Aneurin Bevan
, Ebbw Vale
12:00,
27 November 1947
The total number of new permanent houses let to agricultural workers in England and Wales since 1st April, 1945, is 3,075. The number of temporary houses so let is 610. Claims for the higher subsidies have been received in respect of 1,054 of the permanent houses. As regards Scotland I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the Secretary of State.
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.
