Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 29 Mehefin 1939.
asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that cinema proprietors, in seeking to secure the necessary statutory steps to obtain a draft order for the opening of cinemas on Sundays, are promising the local authority to defray the costs of the necessary proceedings, and that some authorities have accepted the money; and whether he will make it clear to those authorities that it is illegal and against public policy for them to do so?