Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 February 1991.
Mr Ronnie Fearn
, Southport
12:00,
11 February 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he last met the chairman of British Rail to discuss through trains from areas north of London to the continent via the channel tunnel following its anticipated completion.
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.
