Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 July 1959.
Mr Arthur Woodburn
, Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire
12:00,
28 July 1959
Is the Secretary of State aware that there is a presumption that many of the cars which surround roadhouses and other drinking places are not driven by teetotallers? Would it not be advisable to have officers keeping observation late at night and, if necessary, prevent people driving rather than depend on penalties which seem to have failed to have any effect?
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.
