Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1973.
Mr Tom Driberg
, Barking
12:00,
6 November 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will reconsider his decision not to issue family allowances from the date of birth in respect of children born to unmarried parents, such children having been maintained since birth as members of the existing family of either parent.
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.
