Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons am ar 8 Hydref 1940.
Sir Percy Hurd
, Devizes
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will take steps to encourage all military commands, as is already done in some, to supply troops with fresh vegetables from allotments and gardens in adjacent villages in place of tinned vegetables now used?
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.
