Defence written question – answered at on 20 December 2011.
Menzies Campbell
Liberal Democrat, North East Fife
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will place in the Library a copy of each item of correspondence his Department has received from the Scottish Government on their RAF basing review.
Nick Harvey
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
We do not normally publish private correspondence between the Department and the devolved Administrations.
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.