Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 November 1973.
Sir Peter Emery
, Honiton
12:00,
19 November 1973
My hon. Friend is right in the figure which he gives the House. Obviously, it has been right that we should ensure that the SGHWR was the subject of development expenditure in order to see that it would give every potential for further development. Consideration of that further development is at present being undertaken by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the Nuclear Power Advisory 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.
