Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 November 1965.
Mr Tufton Beamish
, Lewes
12:00,
3 November 1965
asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will arrange to pay all members of the Territorial Army Emergency Reserve about to return from Aden the unpaid portion of their annual bounty immediately on their return to this country in order to give them some spending money on leave.
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.
