───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── — 1912-13 1911-12 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Establishment of Army personnel for £25,000 £20,000 aeronautical work ... ... ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Premiums to officers gaining pilot’s £3,000 — certificates ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Staff of new school £5,000 — ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Aeroplanes, stores, and materials for £161,000 £85,000 factory and school ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Buildings, including Army share of school £38,000 £26,000 buildings ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Land for school £90,000 — ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Less Admiralty contribution to general £322,000 £131,000 expenses of school ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── — £14,000 — ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Increased provision £308,000 £131,000 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── — £177,000 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── For a full statement of the Government’s aerial programme, it is not possible to do better than reproduce the speech (as printed in _The Times_) which was made by Colonel Seely, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War. Colonel Seely, explaining in the House of Commons the official scheme for the forthcoming year, said:— "He now came to what was called aviation, though he hoped that that detestable word would vanish from the English language. With regard to the defence of the country, the Prime Minister had appointed a committee, of which Lord Haldane was the chairman. That committee settled broad principles and entrusted the making-out of the complete scheme to a technical committee, of which he acted as chairman. This committee was at work during the whole of last recess, and prepared a scheme which the full committee had accepted in all parts except the details as to pay. The scheme had that morning been approved by the Prime Minister, and would now be carried into effect.