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AUGUST -I, I935- FLIGHT. 125 THE R.A.F. EXPANSION Supplementary Air Estimate of £5,335,000 for Current Year : Personnel to be Increased by 12,000 ; £3,150,000 for " Technical and Warlike Stores" DETAILS of the Supplementary Air Estimates neededin connection with the expansion of the Royal AirForce were published last week. The Estimates showa total increase on the original Air Estimates of j5.3j5.ooo, and the increase in personnel is one of 12,000, bringing the total up to 45,000. The increases under the different votes of the Estimates are as follows: — Vole 1.—Pay. etc.. of lite R.A.F.: Pay and personal allowancesut officers, £40,000; pay and personal allowances of airmen, £230,000; marriage allowance, £19,000; national insurance schemes—employer'scontributions in respect of airmen, £4,000; miscellaneous allowances .iriil payments, £8,000; salaries and wages of civilians, £130,000;recruiting staff and expenses, £18,000. Net increase, Vote 1, £455,000. Vote 2.—Quartering. Stores (except Technical), Supplies andTransportation: Accommodation allowances, £16,000; barrack ser- vices, £4,000; fuel and light, £16,000; general stores, £140,000;clothing, £100,000; provisions and animals, £03,000; transportation, £12,000. Net increase, Vote 2, £411,000. Vole 3.—Technical and Warlike Stores (including Experimentsand Research Services): Aeroplanes and spares, £2,725,000; inspec- tion services, £50,000; instruments, photographic and miscellaneousstores, £55.000; armament and ammunition, £120,000; electrical stores, £80,000; balloons and hangars, £25,000; mechanical and othertransport, £45,000; petrol and oil, £50,000. Net increase, Vote 3, £3,150,000. Vote 4: Works. Buildings. Lands: Staff for works services,£->.\ooo. Part 1, new works, additions and alterations, amounting to £j,5oo each and upwards: already authorised, £400,000. Additn>nalitems: Home: Construction of temporary accommodation, £240,000; provision of aircraft sheds, £150,000; preparation.of new aerodromesurfaces, £20,000; Orfordness, additional accommodation, £5,000; pur- chase of land and buildings, £100,000; rents and reinstatements,£4.500. Net increase. Vote 4, £947,500. Vote 5.—Medical Services: Pay and personal allowances of officers,£6,01x1; pay and persona] allowances of airmen, £1,000; nursing ser- vice, £3,000; medical stores and supplies, £5,000; payments to hos-pitals, £2,000; miscellaneous charges, £1,000. Net increase. Vote 5, £iS,ooo. Training and Education Vote 6.—Technical Training and Educational Services: Royal AirFont- College, Electrical and Wireless School, School of Store Accounting and Storekeeping, Cranwell—salaries, wages and contin-gencies, £9,000; School of Technical Training (Apprentices), Halton, Niluries. wages and contingencies, £21,000; School of TechnicalTraining (men), Manston: Salaries, wages and contingencies, £7,000; School of Technical Training (men), Henlow: Salaries, wages andcontingencies, £25,000; General education services, £4,000. Net in- ".rease, Vote 6, £66,000. Vote 7.—Auxiliary and Reserve Forces: Royal Air Force Reserve,]>ay and personal allowances of regular staff, £1,000; Pay and per- sonal allowances during training, £1,000; Retaining fees and reservelaV. £15.000; Payments to civil companies for training courses, £40,000. Net increase, Vote 7, £57,000. Vote S.—Cii'il Aviation: Works, buildings and lands, £500. Net increase £500. Vote 9.—Meteorological and Miscellaneous Effective Services:Telegraph and telephone charges, postage abroad, £20,000; miscel- laneous, £5,000; Payments to civil companies for preliminary flyingtraining of regular personnel, £140,000. Net increase, Vote y, £it>5.ooo. Vole JO.—Air Ministry: Salaries, wages, etc., £80,000. Net increase £80,000. Vote 11.—Half-pay pensions and other non-effective services. Ser- vice and disability retired pay and gratuities of officers and nurses, £15.100. A decrease of £15,000. Revised total of the estimates for the year, 1935.—Vote 1,(5.<io2,ooo; Vote 2, £2,044,000; Vote 3, £11,152,000; Vote 4, £4,092,500; ^ou' 5. £316,000; Vote 6, £488,000; Vote 7, £527,000; Vote 8,^595,500; Vote 9, £546,000; Vote 10, £832,000; Vote 11, £390,000. Total Air Estimates, Gross Total, £29,186,100. Appropriations-in-aid,£3,201,100. Net total, £25,985,000. Wr Cunlifie-Lister's explanatory memorandum on the esti- mates is as follows: — This estimate provides for the additional personnel and money likely to be required during the current financial year in order to undertake the further scheme for expansion of the Royal Air Force announced in the House of Commons on the 22nd May last. " This scheme provides for the formation of 71 new squad- rons for Home Defence by the 31st March, 1937, which will bring the number of squadrons in this country (excluding the Fleet Air Arm) up to a total of 123, with a first-line strength of approximately 1,500 aircraft. It also provides for reserves behind these 1,500 aircraft, and for a corresponding increase in the aircraft for training and other purposes to lx> held in the ancillary establishments necessary to maintain a first-line force of this strength at the requisite level ot efficiency. Of the new squadrons to be formed, three will IK- on an Auxiliary basis, which tvill bring the number of non-regular squadrons comprised in the Home Defence force up to a total of 16. "The programme will entail the entry of some 2.500 pilots and 20,000 other personnel during the next two years, and it will be necessary to enter a substantial proportion of these in the current year. Vote A is accordingly to be increased from 33,000 to 45,000. The anticipated intake of pilots in 1935 is 1.300. To facilitate the recruiting of these large num- bers ten new recruiting offices have been opened at the follow- ing centres:—Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Plymouth, Portsmouth. " The estimate includes provision tinder Votes 1, 2, g, 6, 7 and 9 tor the pay and maintenance of that proportion of tht: above personnel which it is hoj>ed to engage this year and for their necessary training. Flying Training " A number of new establishments arc to be opened for the flying training of pilots and ground instruction of technical personnel. The number of Service Flying Training Schools, where advanced instruction in flying will be given, is to be raised from 5 to 10, exclusive of Leuchars, which caters primarily for the requirements of the Fleet Air Ann. The ab iniiio training of new pilots, whether for short service on the active list or direct entry into the reserve, will !«• under- taken at civil Flying Schools. There will for the time being be 13 such schools as compared with the 4 hitherto existing. " Provision is made under Vote 3, where an additional sum of £3,150,000 is taken, for such cash payments as are likely to mature before March 31st next, as a result of the placing of orders for the large number of aircraft and engines and for the ancillary equipment which will be required for both com- batant and training formations. The estimated expenditure in the current year includes progress payments on aircraft and equipment which will not be delivered until the financial year 1936. Provision for the bulk of the cost of the new pro- gramme will, of course, fall to be made in this latter year. All arrangements are in train for placing the orders requisite to fulfil the whole programme; aircraft and engines to meet its more immediate requirements are already on order. Fifty New Stations " The revised programme, taken in conjunction with the, scheme announced last July, will entail the provision of ap- proximately 50 new stations in all. Sites for many of these new stations have now been selected and money is taken in this estimate for the necessary land purchases in respect of them. It will further be necessary to accelerate the progress of a number of works services aiready approved by Parlia- ment, to make temporary additions to existing training centres, and to improvise accommodation for new units pend- ing the construction of permanent stations. Provision is abo made for placing orders for the steel framework and founda- tions of 22 aircraft sheds to enable their completion to be effected in time to house aircraft due for delivery in the t-arlv part of next year. An increased provision of £947,500 is accordingly taken under Vote 4 for these and other services. " Account has been taken in the relevant Votes of the cost of the restoration, as from the 1st July, 1935, of the remainder of the emergency abatements made from the remuneration i.f Ministers, Civil Servants and Industrial Employees, and from the pay, half-pay, pensions, etc.. of officers and men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Air Force Reserves, the total sum required for this service being estimated at £65,000
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