Part of Oral Answers to Questions — International Development – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 11 June 2008.
Hugh Bayley
NATO Parliamentary Assembly UK Delegation
11:30,
11 June 2008
Climate change is forcing up agricultural and food prices throughout the world. The Secretary of State is right to say that increasing agricultural productivity, particularly in Africa, is important. What is his Department doing to progress that?
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.
