Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 July 1964.
Mr Robert Cooke
, Bristol West
12:00,
9 July 1964
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take steps to make the public more aware of the ways in which they can help the police in the execution of their duty; and if he will make a statement.
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.