asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation whether he will secure that the report of the annual trading accounts of B.O.A.C. and B.S.A.A.C. will show the number of staff, other than aircrew, employed per aircraft.

My noble Friend has every hope that the annual reports of the three Statutory Airways Corporations will be as informative as possible within the limits of international practice now under consideration by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. The reports are, however, under the Statute, a matter for the Corporations and it is not practicable to state at the present time the precise detail that will be given.