Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 July 1990.
Mr Martin Flannery
, Sheffield, Hillsborough
12:00,
12 July 1990
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the inquiry by the Devon and Cornwall police into the Birmingham pub bombings case to be completed; and if he will make a statement.
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.