Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 December 1973.
Mr Neil Marten
, Banbury
12:00,
19 December 1973
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the latest meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Common Market
An informal reference to the Council of the European Union.
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.