§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many offences of procuring illegal abortion were recorded as known to the police for the years 1974 and 1975.
428Wam aware of only five prosecutions of cinemas for showing indecent films in recent years, one of which is still pending.
§ Mr. Michael McNair-Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is his policy not to refer certain publications to the Director of Public Prosecutions as obscene literature on grounds of their medical or health value.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe Home Office has no responsibility for the enforcement of the law. Where a particular complaint is addressed to the Department no account is taken of the likely value of the publication concerned on medical, health, or other grounds in deciding whether it should be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for consideration.