Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons am 1:49 pm ar 19 Mawrth 1997.
Sir Peter Emery
, Honiton
1:49,
19 Mawrth 1997
Will my hon. Friend ask our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to ask the chairmen of the public utility companies to calculate and publish their estimates of what the increase in costs might be if any Government saw fit to introduce a windfall tax, so that the consumer can know now what the increase in the cost of gas, electricity and telephone calls would be?
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.
