Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1973.
Mr Evelyn King
, South Dorset
12:00,
19 November 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for how long the steam generating heavy water reactor, as completed at Winfrith, has been in operation and with what results; and what information he has as to the further use of this prototype by the Central Electricity Generating Board.
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.
