asked the Secretary of State for Air the proportion of additional recruits for the enlargement of the Royal Air Force enrolled in Scotland as compared with those enrolled in England and Wales?

The proportion is about 4½ per cent.

In view of the well-known engineering skill of Scotsmen, does not the right hon. Gentleman think that something should be done to popularise recruiting in Scotland?

We have opened a special recruiting office in Glasgow, and I hope it will attract patriotic, competent and technically efficient Scotsmen.

Is it not the case that most of the competent Scotsmen come to England?