§ Lord Norrieasked Her Majesty's Government:
What progress is being made on computerising the statutory lists of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment (Baroness Blatch)English Heritage are reviewing 379 of the lists produced during the early years of the national listing resurvey, and these lists will be computer-based. By the end of 1992, when this exercise will have been completed, about 20 per cent. of list entries will be on a computerised database. The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England are about to commence a pilot study, scheduled to last six months, of the lists for County Durham. The primary objective of the study is to explore whether computerisation of the remaining lists to a standard of information, agreed by the department and English Heritage is feasible.