§ 44. Mr. BILLINGasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the 1305 incompatibility which is once again becoming accentuated in the combined naval, military, and political administration of the Air Services; and whether, in view of the pending resignation of the chairman of the Air Board, he will consider the advisability of eliminating this friction and consequent official delays by vesting the supreme control of the naval and military aeronautical undertakings in the respective services in and reconstructing the Air Board under one Minister of initiative imagination and experience, with powers to organise from the surplus of the naval and military requirements an air fleet to carry the air war into the enemy's country independent of our ordinary naval and military undertakings, thus expanding our aeronautical operations and at the same time eliminating the present factions?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWThe answer is in the negative.
§ Mr. BILLINGIs any definite action at present under the consideration of the Government for instituting an offensive against the enemy in Germany from the air?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWIf it were, I do rot think it would be very likely that I should make it known
§ Mr. BILLINGIs the policy of the Government going to be altered in view of the question of their refusal to take reprisals for the raids we have experienced?