Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 November 1973.
Dr Dickson Mabon
, Greenock
12:00,
21 November 1973
In the three and a half years during which the Secretary of State has been at the Scottish Office, nothing has happened at Hunterston. It is true that he has assented to certain planning principles, but is it not the case that he has not approved any of the applications before him, in particular the refining propositions put to him by at least two companies?
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.
