§ Mr. Geoffrey Lloydasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will seek to arrange for relaxations of the restrictions on the use of service aerodromes in the development areas, to enable them to be of more effective use to industrialists moving to those areas, in view of the difficulties as set out in the letter sent to him by the right hon. Member for Sutton Coldfield.
§ Mr. HattersleyI am at present considering with my right hon. Friend the question of adding further R.A.F. airfields to the list of Service airfields which are open for civil use. I do not however see any prospect of keeping R.A.F. airfields open for civil use at times when they are not required to be open for Service reasons.
I will write to the hon. Member fairly soon on the points raised in his letter.