Former MP for Manchester Ardwick
20 and 46. (1) asked the Home Secretary what steps, in the way of criminal proceedings, he proposes to take in order to check the seriously increasing output of obscene literature having for its object the prevention of conception; (2) asked the Prime Minister whether the Government intends to introduce legislation, on the lines of the French law of 1920, making it a punishable offence to...
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that many of these books contain positively obscene drawings?
Are these prices contained in the Act of 1904, and are we discussing whether they are to be kept in or left out?
I hope the Committee will support the Government in the Bill as it stands, and will also support the Select Committee whose special duty it was to investigate these expiring laws. The hon. Member who moved this Amendment said that there was a demand on the part of the public that this present Regulation should be continued. I have not met with that demand, nor have I met anyone else who has...
This opens up a new situation. Up to the last moment we were under the impression that the Government intended to carry out the Expiring Laws Bill as printed on the Paper. Is it fair at the last moment that a new line of this sort should be taken because the hon. Member for Kettering (Mr. Waterson) has moved an Amendment? Is it fair, when this gap is not a gap at all, but is simply reverting...
is the hon. Member referring to the Select Committee of 1914 or the Rathcreedan Committee?
The Rathcreedan Committee was specially arranged to suit the officials in Whitehall, so as to continue this Order. The recommendations of the Select Committee of 1914 are diametrically opposed to the legislation which the hon. Member proposes. That was a Committee of Members of this House, representative of all parties. It made certain recommendations with regard to tea and bread. The...
It was not set up by this House.
