As regards expenditure on the United States Navy and Army, perhaps the hon. and gallant Member would be good enough to put down questions to my right hon. Friends the First Lord and the Secretary of State for War. As regards air expenditure, there is, of course, no separate air budget in the United States, but, including what is in that country officially termed "indirect" expenditure, i.e., expenditure which is not shown under separate air headings but embedded in the main Naval and Military votes, the figures may be taken, when converted into sterling at current rates of exchange, to be approximately as under:—

	£
1928–29	22,000,000
1929–30	24,500,000

I should add that there were certain supplementary estimates for air expenditure in the year 1928–29 which are included in the above total and it is possible, if not probable, that there will be similar supplementaries in the course of 1929–30 which will augment the provisional figure given above for this latter year.