Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland. – in the House of Commons at on 20 February 1940.
Mr Thomas Cooper
, Edinburgh West
The cases referred to were the first reported to me as contraventions of the Order, and they related to the initial period of rationing control. On that account, and on a consideration of the evidence submitted in proof of the alleged contraventions, I came to the conclusion that the cases were unsuitable for prosecution, and instructed that the alleged offenders should be formally warned by the police. The answer to the last part of the Question is in the negative.