asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that a quantity of paint purchased recently from No. 70 M.U., Goring Heath, was full of water and worthless; and in view of this evidence of the condition of stores there, if he will consider dispersing the establishment.

I am informed that the Ministry of Supply recently sold, as scrap, some paint from this depot which had been condemned some time before because of age and had therefore been stored in the open. This is not representative of the contents of the depot, which contains about one million pound's worth of technical stores of various kinds for the Royal Air Force. The last part of the Question does not therefore arise.