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
Will the Secretary of State confirm that there is evidence of deterioration in the quality of services? Will he confirm that some schools have had to close because of a lack of cleanliness, and that some contractors who bid low in order to defeat local authority tenders have had to pull out half way through the contract and let the local authority pick up the mess?
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.
