Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 June 1964.
Lieut-Colonel John Cordeaux
, Nottingham Central
12:00,
4 June 1964
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps were taken to prevent any communication between Gordon Lonsdale and George Blake during the period when they were both imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs Prison in 1961.
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.
