Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 January 1997.
Stephen Timms
, Newham North East
12:00,
27 January 1997
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much of his Department's bilateral and multilateral budget was allocated to the Great Lakes area of Africa in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [11142]
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.
