65. Mr. F. HALL (Dulwich)asked if it is contrary to Regulations for officers of the Army Flying Corps to alight at military camps; if, during the recent training of the Oxfordshire Hussars, Major Winston Churchill flew to the camping ground of that regiment in a Government aeroplane; if two other officers subsequently adopted a similar course; if steps were taken against them on the ground of their having infringed the Regulations; and if the matter was not further proceeded with owing to the fact that the officers in question acted as they did in consequence of the example already set them by the First Lord of the Admiralty?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. H. Baker)The answer to the first point is "No"; to the second and third "Yes"; and to the fourth that no Regulation was infringed by the two officers and that they went by the permission of the commandant, Central Flying School. The suggestion made in the fifth part of the question is consequently erroneous and unnecessary.
Mr. F. HALLIs there a special code of the privilege Regulation for the First Lord of the Admiralty not applicable to other officers?