Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 May 1983.
Sir Sydney Chapman
, Barnet Chipping Barnet
12:00,
3 May 1983
asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the rate of change in the balance of nuclear intermediate range weapons between the Warsaw Pact and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries.
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.
