Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1973.
Mrs Jill Knight
, Birmingham, Edgbaston
12:00,
6 November 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make financial assistance available to deaf persons who are unable to use the National Health Service deaf aid.
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.