Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 December 1973.
Mr Peter Doig
, Dundee West
12:00,
12 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to exempt from cuts in expenditure programmes all essential local authority work on housing, hospitals, factories, etc.
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.
