Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 July 1959.
Mrs Jean Mann
, Coatbridge and Airdrie
12:00,
28 July 1959
Is the Secretary of State aware that housewives have always had the choice since the Housing Manual, 1945, laid down that it was the choice of the women of Scotland to be free to decide between electricity and gas?
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.
