§ 24. Lieut.-Colonel Hydeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the fact that the police are issued with a list of books, the possession of which is likely to infringe the law, and which they are authorised to seize, whether the booksellers trade can be supplied with such a list for their guidance.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeMy hon. and gallant Friend is under a misapprehension. The only list of obscene publications which is circulated to the police is not a list of the kind described in the Question, nor does it authorise the seizure of books. I have no power either to determine whether any publication is obscene or to authorise seizure. This list merely sets out the titles of publications which have already been condemned by the courts in a given period.