§ 65. Mr. R. MACDONALDasked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry whether it is proposed to continue the construction of airship sheds near Rye with Royal Air Force men working for military pay and under military conditions, or whether, in the event of these sheds being still required, the men working upon them will be demobilised and discharged and then employed as civilian workmen?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI have been asked to answer this question. The sheds referred to are portable airship sheds, one of which is already completed; the other will be completed in the course of the next few days. My hon. Friend is under a misapprehension as to the labour employed in the construction of these sheds. They have been constructed by civilian labour under contract, and the Royal Air Force personnel are only employed in the erection and moving of the sheds after delivery.