Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 23 April 1996.
Edward Leigh
, Gainsborough and Horncastle
12:00,
23 April 1996
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the savings to public funds arising from the decision to update pensions in line with prices rather than earnings. [24676]
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.