Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Police – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 October 1949.
Mr Ernest Fernyhough
, Jarrow
12:00,
20 October 1949
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why an estimated crowd of 4,000 men was permitted to block Throgmorton Street on Monday, 19th September; what prosecutions are pending for obstruction; and why the police failed to take effective steps to deal with the situation.
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.
