§ Mr. Brian Parkynasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will now set up an inquiry into the feasibility of a Government helicopter service to supplement the use of lifeboats by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
§ Mr. Roy MasonService helicopters stationed at various bases in the United264W Kingdom are already available, subject to overriding military commitments, to assist in civil marine search and rescue. A committee set up to review the marine search and rescue organisation in this country, including air/sea rescue arrangements, is about to make its report to me. I shall consider whether any further study of helicopter arrangements is required when I receive this report.