§ Mr. Charletonasked the Secretary of State for Air whether he will consider the desirability of granting an increase to apprentices in the Royal Air Force whose present pay is only 1s. per day and who have not participated in the additional 6d. recently granted to the services in respect of tobacco?
Captain BalfourWhen the grant of the pay increase of 6d. a day to airmen was under consideration recently, the question whether it should be granted to apprentices also was carefully considered but, in view of the reasons for which the increase was being given, it was felt that its extension to the apprentices would not be justifiable.