Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1991.
Ian McCartney
, Makerfield
12:00,
22 January 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the reason for his decision to decommission HMS Warspite.
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.
