Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1991.
Mr Geoffrey Lofthouse
, Pontefract and Castleford
12:00,
6 November 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what evidence his Department has acquired on the impact of the extension of compulsory competitive tendering on the quality of local authority services.
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.