§ Mr. Ensorasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he will take to relieve the cinema industry of the Sunday levy and other burdens imposed by the Sunday Observance Laws.
§ Sir F. SoskiceThe Departmental Committee on the Law on Sunday Observance, which reported last year, recommendedinter alia, the repeal of the provisions of the Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 relating to the Sunday opening of cinemas, including the abolition of the levy. As I have previously informed the House, the Government believes that proposals to relax the laws governing Sunday entertainment and sport, since they raise questions so closely affecting the conscience of individual members, could best be discussed on a Bill introduced in Private Members' time, on which all decisions would be left to a free vote of the House.