asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any Colonial administrations have yet decided to adopt the recommendation contained in the report on leave and passage conditions in the Colonial service that Colonial officials should, wherever possible, be enabled to make use of air routes for passage in connection with leave?

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to a similar question by the hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Wight (Captain P. Macdonald) on 20th February. Where facilities for air transport exist, Colonial officers proceeding on leave are at liberty to use them; but it is not possible to consider the particular recommendation as to the leave and passage privileges which should be granted to officers who travel by air apart from the general proposals put forward in the report, and no decisions have yet been taken regarding the application of these proposals in any Colonies.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any progress has been made with the scheme for providing and censoring films for native consumption in the undeveloped parts of the British Empire; and, if so, whether he can give any indication as to the type of such films which have been officially approved?

I assume that my hon. Friend has in mind the committee nominated some years ago by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to assist the British United Film Producers Company, Limited, in the selection of suitable films for exhibition in the Colonies. That scheme was not specially designed to provide and censor films for exhibition to natives in the undeveloped parts of the British Empire, and no project having that particular object is in existence. In fact, each Colonial Government is responsible for the censorship of films to be exhibited within its territory. My hon. Friend may be interested to know, however, that an experiment financed by the Carnegie Corporation is about to be carried out in the British dependencies in East Africa under the auspices of the International Missionary Council and the British Film Institute and with the cordial co-operation of myself and the Colonial Governments concerned, with a view to investigating and providing the types of film most suitable for exhibition to natives in these territories.

asked the Minister of Labour the approximate cost of extending to those in receipt of unemployment benefit the same additional payments as have been made in respect of His Majesty's Jubilee to recipients of assistance?

About £170,000.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether the Board will consider advising educational authorities to print and frame the King's Jubilee message to children for prominent display on the walls of the different class rooms?

My Noble Friend fully appreciates the object which the hon. Member has in mind. The matter is one which falls within the free discretion of the local education authorities, but my Noble Friend has no doubt that many schools have already acted on the suggestion, and that their example will he widely followed.

asked the Minister of Labour whether any schemes have been, or are to be, financially assisted by the Government for the employment of men from the distressed areas on coastal protection work?

The general position as regards Government assistance for coastal protection works is described in the reply given to the hon. and gallant Member's question of 2nd May by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. The Commissioners for the Special Areas have also certain limited powers to assist public works intended to facilitate the economic development within their respective areas. As regards the employment of men from the distressed areas when an Exchequer grant is made for a coastal protection work, no specific obligation is, as a rule, imposed upon the local authority, but where public works are being carried out in areas in which the state of employment permits of the importation of labour from other districts, it is the Government's desire that opportunities should be afforded to depressed area men.

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether, in drawing up plans for ensuring the adequate air strength of this country, due regard will be had to the desirability and economy of increasing the number of commercial aeroplanes as well as those of the Royal Air Force?

His Majesty's Government are desirous of encouraging the development of civil aviation in every way to meet legitimate commercial requirements rather than in the light of

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty for what reason the system of calculating the wages of industrial civil servants by adding bonus to basic pay is still continued; and

asked the Minister of Health (1) whether there have been any deaths from diphtheria in Leeds children who had at any time been inoculated against diphtheria;(2) The number of children under 15 years of age in Leeds who were inoculated against diphtheria in each of the years 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934; the number of those inoculated in these years who gave the final Schick-negative test; and the number of those who, having been inoculated and given final Schick-negative tests, contracted diphtheria in each of these years?

The following is the information furnished by the local authority on this subject:whether, in view of the advantages which have accrued by consolidating the pay and bonus of non-industrial civil servants, he will now consider extending this reform to industrial civil servants at the earliest opportunity?

The wages of industrial workpeople serving in Admiralty establishments are based broadly on the rates paid in comparable outside industries. In the outside shipbuilding and engineering industries the payment of a separate bonus is still maintained. The basis on which the remuneration of industrial workpeople, serving under the Admiralty and other Departments of State, is framed is quite different from that governing the remuneration of non-industrial civil servants, whose bonus was directly related to the cost-of-living figure, and the reasons for consolidation, which derived mainly from this fact, do not apply to industrial staff. In the circumstances, I am not prepared to consider at present the consolidation of the wages and bonus of Admiralty work-people.

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any cases have been reported during the current year of smuggling animals into Northern Ireland from the Irish Free State; and whether he is satisfied that the present arrangements are proving sufficient to deal with this problem?

The reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the second part, the number of seizures, which have greatly increased as compared with last year, indicates that the existing arrangements are proving effective.