Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons am 11:30 am ar 6 Mai 2009.
Menzies Campbell
Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol, North East Fife
11:30,
6 Mai 2009
Does the Secretary of State agree that the one Government policy that is having no visible effect in Scotland is the temporary reduction in value added tax? Would not that money have been of greater economic and social benefit to Scotland if it had been spent on home insulation, replacing inadequate schools and building council houses?
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.
