Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons am ar 30 Mehefin 1924.
Mr John Mills
, Dartford
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the total amount expended out of Indian revenue during 1918–21 for military expenditure in Iraq?
Mr Robert Richards
, Wrecsam
No additional expenditure has been debited to Indian revenues in consequence of military operations in Iraq, In accordance with the Parliamentary Resolutions of 1914, Indian expenditure on oversea operations has been limited to the normal charges that would have been incurred had the troops remained in India.
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.
