Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 July 1991.
Ms Joyce Quin
, Gateshead East
12:00,
1 July 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the implementation of his objective of transferring more freight traffic from road to rail.
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.