asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in view of the recent revision in agreement with the staff side of the National Whitley Council of the mileage allowances payable to civil servants who are authorised to use their private motor-cars on official business, which provides for 6d. a mile in respect of motor-cars of over 10 horsepower for the first 3,000 miles each year, so as partly to reimburse to the motorcar owner that proportion of his annual overhead expenses which his official mileage bears to his private mileage as restricted by the petrol rationing scheme, and in view of the fact that officers on Royal Air Force duties receive only 3d. per mile, he will revise to a more equitable level Royal Air Force mileage allowances?

By the terms of an Air Ministry Order promulgated on 5th November, 1941, the new motor mileage allowances referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend were applied to Service as well as to civilian personnel with effect from 15th October, 1941.