Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 December 1973.
Mr Dick Douglas
, Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire
12:00,
10 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the facilities which are now available to him to evaluate the designs for oil production platforms.
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.
