Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Air how many civilian technical representatives are at present detached from firms and working with Royal Air Force units; and how this figure compares with the numbers in 1955 and 1954.
§ Mr. BirchEighty. This excludes contractors' working parties and also technical representatives attached to stations at a firm's own request. Comparable figures for 1955 and 1954 are sixty-eight and forty.