Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 December 1973.
Mr William Molloy
, Ealing North
12:00,
6 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to aid recruitment of police for the Metropolitan area.
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.