Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 September 1950.
Mr Alfred Balfour
, West Stirlingshire
12:00,
19 September 1950
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether his attention has been called to the extensive damage to domestic and agricultural property due to flooding and diversion of the Gonachan burn in the neighbourhood of Fintry, Stirlingshire; what steps he proposes to take to obviate similar devastations in the future; and what steps he is taking to secure compensation for the sufferers from this flooding.
The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. McNeil):
A meeting of those interested, together with representatives of the Stirlingshire County Council and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, will take place on the site tomorrow (Wednesday, 20th September) to discuss the situation. I regret that I have no funds from which those who suffered from the flooding can be assisted.
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.
