Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 January 1997.
Martin Smyth
, Belfast South
12:00,
30 January 1997
While I share the Secretary of State's confidence in our education system and appreciate that selection could come a year later, does he accept that some schools are surreptitiously avoiding the concept of selection? In terms of primary education, it is the controlled sector that is being endangered.
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.
