Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 December 1956.
Sir Barnett Stross
, Stoke-on-Trent Central
12:00,
20 December 1956
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visas have been issued to non-British subjects who have been expelled from Egypt; and how many British subjects have already reached Britain.
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.