§ 19. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he can give an estimate of the number of persons in Great Britain and Northern Ireland now able to fly who could be trusted to act as pilots?
§ Sir P. SASSOONI can perhaps best answer the right hon. and gallant Member's question by stating the number of civil pilots holding A or B licences issued in this country—which is about 2,870.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODThe Under-Secretary has completely misunderstood the purport of my question. I wanted to know the number of persons in the Air Force and elsewhere who were capable of flying high-speed machines?
§ Sir P. SASSOONI am sorry that I have misunderstood the question. Perhaps the right hon. and gallant Member will be good enough to put it down again.