Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 December 1973.
Mr Evelyn King
, South Dorset
12:00,
6 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now introduce legislation in order to amend the Shop Hours Act so as to enable working women to shop in the hours of their choice.
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.
