Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 July 2017.
Jo Churchill
Conservative, Bury St Edmunds
12:00,
10 July 2017
Will the Secretary of State join me in welcoming the Apache helicopter package worth £48 million to secure high-skilled jobs at Wattisham airfield in my Constituency, and does he agree that that will help our armed forces to keep us safe, and that it is all due to a growing defence budget?
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.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
