Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 8 October 2007.
Nadine Dorries
Conservative, Mid Bedfordshire
2:30,
8 October 2007
Will the Secretary of State implement any of the proposals outlined in David Freud's report "Reducing dependency, increasing opportunity", which the Government commissioned? Has he discussed the report with the Prime Minister? If the recommendations are not to be implemented, will he tell us why not?
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.
