Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 2 Ebrill 1947.
Sir Waldron Smithers
, Orpington
12:00,
2 Ebrill 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Air the reasons for the delay in derequisitioning Towerfields, Keston, Kent, the release of which was promised in his letter of 31st October; and why, in view of that promise, he has now handed it over to another Government Department.
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.
