§ Mr. Wilkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether, in view of the proposed establishment of civil helicopter search and rescue facilities at Royal Air Force, Manston, he will now make a further statement of measures to implement the recommendations of the Board of Trade Committee on the Marine Search and Rescue Organisation published in 1970.
§ Mr. Anthony GrantThe Committee came to the general conclusion that the arrangements for marine search and rescue in the United Kingdom work well and it made no recommendations for major changes. Where its recommendations called for some specific action, this has already been put in hand. In particular, experiments by H.M. Coast Guard in the use of shore-based direction finding equipment and radar are continuing.