Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 December 1973.
Mr Michael McNair-Wilson
, Walthamstow East
12:00,
4 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether, in view of the report by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council on occupational deafness, he will introduce a scheme for the pre-employment measurement of hearing levels among persons working in manufacturing industry.
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.
