HC Deb 07 August 1940 vol 364 c226W
Sir J. Mellor

asked the Home Secretary how the communication issued for publication by the Ministry of Home Security jointly with the Air Ministry, on 1st August, announcing that enemy bombs had fallen on Norwich, was consistent with existing policy and practice in that it identified the town bombed; and is it proposed to change this practice?

Sir A. Sinclair

I have been asked to reply. It has always been the policy of His Majesty's Government to release as much information about enemy raids as considerations of national security permit. On the occasion to which my hon. Friend refers, it was considered that no information of value to the enemy would be divulged by including in the official communique the name of the town concerned.

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