§ 37. Mr. RAPERasked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry whether, on a recent commercial flight from Blackburn to Holland, the machines employed had to waste a whole day in reporting to Lympne before proceeding overseas?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Major Tryon)My hon. Friend possibly refers to a recent commercial flight from Hull to Holland which has already been the subject of a question by the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull. The necessity for landing at Lympne in such cases was fully dealt with in the reply to that question on 11th March (OFFICIAL REPORT, Col. 1556), and in the reply to my hon. and gallant Friend, the Member for Leeds, N.E., on 15th March (Col. 1829). The amount of time spent at Lympne is largely dependent upon the time-table arranged by the organisers of the flight.
§ Mr. RAPERIs it proposed that in all commercial flights machines from all parts of this country must first go to Lympne, whether they come from Scotland or Plymouth or anywhere else?
§ Major TRYONThat is not the purport of the answer which I have already given.