§ 64. Mr. Crowderasked the Postmaster-General the number of prosecutions which have taken place in the last 12 months for which he has statistics for attempted swindles in connection with football pools and racecourse betting, respectively, either by means of collusion with officials inside the Post Office or by tampering with letters carrying misleading postal marks?
§ The Assistant Postmaster-General (Sir Walter Womersley)During the year 1937 the Post Office undertook the prosecution of 27 Post Office servants and 16 outside persons in connection with betting frauds. Seven of the prosecutions were in respect of football pools, nine in respect of racing pools and 27 in respect of betting on horse-races. In addition, the Post Office was concerned in 14 prosecutions for fraudulent betting undertaken by commission agents against outside persons. Ten of them were in respect of football pools, one in respect of racing pools and three in respect of betting on horse-races.