Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 July 1990.
Mr Max Madden
, Bradford West
12:00,
12 July 1990
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider establishing a public inquiry into the convictions of the six men convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings.
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.