Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1973.
Dr John Gilbert
, Dudley
12:00,
19 November 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will seek to incorporate the Take-over Code in statutory form in his coming review of company law.
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.
