HC Deb 17 June 1964 vol 696 c190W
Mr. Thorpe

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what was the cost to his Department of sending a helicopter to collect a turntable operator of a radio station, being illegally operated on Crown property in the Thames estuary, in order to fly him to hospital for the treatment of a stomach ailment caused through food poisoning.

Mr. H. Fraser

The helicopter concerned was on a training mission in the area at the: time and no extra costs were incurred in meeting this request from the local police.