§ 52. Mr. Beswickasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what representations have been made to him by the British Overseas Airways Corporation to be allowed to enter into an associate agreement, under Section 15 of the Air Corporations Act, 1949, with independent companies, in which the independent companies concerned would be allotted 30 per cent. of the estimated tourist traffic from the United Kingdom to Nairobi, Salisbury and Accra and 30 per cent. of the mail and freight carried to those destinations.
§ Mr. WatkinsonRequests to be allowed to enter into associate agreements normally come from the independent companies concerned and not from the Corporations. In the cases to which the hon. Member refers, the policy I announced on 26th June, which applies only to colonial coach routes already established as such, was recommended to me by the Air Transport Advisory Council. I have asked B.O.A.C. to play its part in implementing it and this it will do.