Part of Oral Answers to Questions — European Community – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 January 1984.
Sir David Price
, Eastleigh
12:00,
25 January 1984
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further progress has been made at ministerial level towards an acceptable solution to the current budget crisis in the European Economic Community.
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.