HC Deb 25 February 1942 vol 378 c224W
Commander Locker-Lampson

asked the Minister of Information in how many cases letters opened in course of examination for censorship have involved prosecutions for offences only discovered through the opening of these letters?

Mr. Bracken

Prosecutions in such cases are instituted by the Departments concerned, on information submitted to them, and not by the censorship. I have no information as to the action taken by Departments on the censorship submissions, and, in any case, I think it would be very difficult, in practice, to determine to what extent prosecutions are based on information contained in letters opened in censorship or on other available evidence.