Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 January 1991.
Mr Roger Freeman
, Kettering
12:00,
14 January 1991
Although my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State has not yet had the opportunity to visit the north-west by rail, his ministerial colleagues at the Department have done so on several occasions.
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.
