§ Brigadier-General CRITCHLEYasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the backward condition of British commercial aviation, as witnessed by the recent England to Australian air race, and in view of the minority report of the Gorell Committee, he will give an early day for the discussion in this House of the recommendation contained therein to remove civil and commercial aviation from the control of the Air Ministy?
§ The PRIME MINISTERAt the time of the publication of the report of the Gorell Committee, His Majesty's Government made it plain that they had no intention of removing civil aviation from the Air Ministry. It would, indeed, be a retrograde step, when the majority of other great nations have followed our example in unifying and rationalising their air organisation. In view of the great congestion of Parliamentary business, I can see no prospect of its being possible to give a day for debating this question in the early future.