Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 March 1993.
Mr Keith Hampson
, Leeds North West
12:00,
11 March 1993
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he is giving to the discretionary powers given to local authorities in registering shops for Sunday opening in the preparation of his legislation; and if he will make a statement.
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.
