Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:56 pm on 20 October 2003.
Baroness Byford
Conservative
2:56,
20 October 2003
asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs would be prepared to use her discretion to allow a trial of genetically modified crops to go ahead without publication of the exact location of the trial.
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.
