Part of Transport – in the House of Commons at on 12 February 2026.
Edward Leigh
Father of the House of Commons
The Secretary of State probably knows what I am going to ask. The single best thing we could do to promote economic growth in North East Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire, and particularly in Grimsby, which is one of the largest towns in England without a through-train to London, is to get our through-train to London from Grimsby and Cleethorpes, via Market Rasen and Lincoln. My hon. Friend Martin Vickers and I have campaigned relentlessly for this. We went to see Lord Hendy, who gave us a very good interview, didn’t he?
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.
