Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 June 1964.
Mr Frank Hayman
, Falmouth and Camborne
12:00,
10 June 1964
asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he is aware of public anxiety at the discovery by a walker on Dartmoor of a half-buried war-time dump of poison gas canisters and explosives; what record was kept of the dumping of such dangerous material at the time of its disposal; and if he will give an assurance that similar dumps do not exist in other parts of the Dartmoor National Park.
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.
