Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Jamaica. – in the House of Commons am ar 29 Mawrth 1939.
Mr Benjamin Riley
, Dewsbury
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether a Labour Department is now established and functioning in Jamaica; and whether he can state, approximately, the number of unemployed persons in Kingston, Jamaica?
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.
