§ Mr. Goughasked the Minister of Civil Aviation what expert opinion he has sought in connection with the Gatwick project outside the officials of his own Department.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe selection, design and construction of civil aerodromes requires the views of experts in a number of fields, in many of which, such as civil air traffic control, up-to-date experience is unavoidably mainly confined to my Department. In this as in other cases, outside experts have been consulted wherever their assistance would be of value on such matters as the commercial requirements of air transport, surface transport, drainage, etc.