Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at 1:38 pm on 28 October 1998.
Ann Winterton
Conservative, Congleton
1:38,
28 October 1998
Although I welcome any action to encourage more women to stand for elected office in Northern Ireland, may I ask the Secretary of State whether she will resist the temptation to revert to a former socialist policy of single-sex lists for nomination—bearing in mind that most women wish to be elected not only because of their ability, but because of what they stand for and can offer to the electorate?
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.
