Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 December 1973.
Mr Willie Hamilton
, Fife West
12:00,
6 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will introduce legislation to amend the law on nationality to enable men of foreign nationality who marry British women to obtain British nationality.
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.
