Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1991.
Mr David Knox
, Staffordshire Moorlands
12:00,
4 July 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were in prison at the most recent count.
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.