Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 June 1991.
Mr Archy Kirkwood
, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
12:00,
19 June 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further assistance he proposes to make available to those share fishermen currently prevented from fishing by the eight-day tie-up rule.
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.