HC Deb 20 May 1936 vol 312 cc1337-8

Resolution reported, That, for the purpose of any Act of the present Session to amend the Law with respect to aviation and matters connected therewith, it is expedient—

  1. (1) to authorise the Secretary of State to agree, with the approval of the Treasury, to pay subsidies to any persons and to furnish facilities for their aircraft, in. consideration of undertakings entered into by those persons with respect to the carriage by air of passengers or goods (including mails and animals), and to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any sums required by the Secretary of State for the fulfilment of any such agreement; and
  2. (2) to authorise the Secretary of State to contribute such sums as he may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine, to the payment of any expenses which may be incurred by any body to whom functions in connection with aviation are delegated or entrusted by the Secretary of State under the said Act, and to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any sums required by the Secretary of State for making such contributions.
Provided that—
  1. (a) the aggregate amount of the subsidies payable under all the agreements made in pursuance of paragraph (1) of this Resolution and all the agreements which, before the passing of the said Act, may have been made under the Air Transport.(Subsidy Agreements) Act, 1930, shall not exceed one million five hundred thousand pounds in any financial year; and
  2. (b) no subsidy shall, after the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, be payable under any agreement made in pursuance of paragraph (1) of this Resolution."

The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.

It being after Half-past Eleven of the Clock upon Wednesday evening, Mr. SPEAKER adjourned the. House, without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.

Adjourned at Twenty Minutes before Twelve o'Clock.