Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 June 1964.
Mr Hector Hughes
, Aberdeen North
12:00,
4 June 1964
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will extend the scope and terms of reference of the Departmental Committee he has appointed to examine and report on the arrangements and machinery for providing legal aid in criminal proceedings in such a way as to enable the Committee to consider and report on the costs of such proceedings and on the provision of compensation to persons injured or financially damaged by criminal acts.
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.
