§ 42. Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what was the value of the direct subsidies given to civil aviation in France and Germany and of the indirect subsidies given to civil aviation by the United States of America during 1932?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Sir Philip Sassoon)Information regarding the actual payments by way of subsidies to civil aviation in France and Germany is not available, but the amounts provided in French Estimates for the nine months ended 31st December last totalled 162,500,000 francs, and those in German Estimates for, the year ended 31st March last 20,732,000 Reichsmarks. As regards the United States of America, the indirect subsidy to civil aviation for the year ended 30th June last by way of loss on air mail contracts was approximately 23,850,000 dollars.
§ Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTCould not the Government emulate the example of the United States in treating higher aviation as they did?