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
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the reports on his files concerning the removal of Dugald Johnstone after nine years from his foster parents in Mull, and his further four removals before his remains were discovered near Dunoon.
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.