Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 29 Ionawr 1991.
Tony Blair
, Sedgefield
12:00,
29 Ionawr 1991
With unemployment rising in every region of the country, every sector of industry and every occupation, what pride does the Secretary of State take in presiding over this unique combination—the fastest rising unemployment of any major industrial country, acute skill shortages and proposed cuts in the Department's budget for training the unemployed?
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.