Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 February 1993.
Mike O'Brien
, North Warwickshire
12:00,
2 February 1993
Is not there a real danger that the Secretary of State will become too involved in the way in which things are done in the classroom and too prescriptive and rigid about the way in which teachers teach? Should not we trust teachers, governors and heads to decide how teaching should be done in the classroom, rather than the state being involved in every single decision?
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.
