Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Register – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Mr James Ede
, South Shields
12:00,
8 December 1949
My hon. Friend should address his remarks in regard to Scotland to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. My experience is that when what my hon. Friend has described has occurred, there is a personal canvass of the property in question.
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.
