§ 70. Mr. WALTER BAKERasked the Secretary of State for Air whether the Director of Civil Aviation has resigned the managing directorship of the Trinidad Friendship Oil Company; and whether he will give an assurance that no similar directorships are held by officials of his Ministry whose salaries are chargeable to the Air Ministry Vote?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Sir Samuel Hoare)In answer to the first part of the question, the Director of Civil Aviation has resigned his directorship (not managing directorship) in the company named. In regard to the second part, two temporary Air Ministry officials hold directorships in public companies. One has declined an offer of a permanent established post in the Ministry in order that he might be allowed to keep in touch in this way with the technique of his profession in the outside world, to which he will probably be returning early next year. In the other case I am informed that the company has not traded for some years past, and that the present directors are endeavouring to transfer their interests to other hands.