Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Hong Kong – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 April 1964.
Dr Jeremy Bray
, Middlesbrough West
12:00,
28 April 1964
asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the Colonies what steps are being taken in Hong Kong to provide employment and housing in the more northerly parts of the New Territories, where ample land is available.
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.
