§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list(a) the record offices in England, (b) the number of people they employ, both paid and voluntary and (c) the number of people that use the service annually and the amount of revenue they receive.
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 26 April 1994]:Records of central Government are the responsibility of the Public Record Office, for which my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor is responsible. Local authority record offices are listed in the table. Their staffing and operation are the responsibility of the individual local authorities, and information on employees and users is not held centrally. In their 1992–93 expenditure returns local authorities recorded income from achive services totalling around £3.5 million.
Local Authority Record Offices in England
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County councils Cornwall Bedfordshire Cumbria Berkshire Derbyshire Buckinghamshire Durham Cambridgeshire Essex Cheshire Gloucestershire Cleveland Hampshire
Hereford and Worcester Oxfordshire Hertfordshire Shropshire Humberside Somerset Isle of Wight Staffordshire Kent Suffolk Lancashire Surrey Leicestershire Warwickshire Lincolnshire West Sussex Norfolk Wiltshire Northamptonshire Northumberland North Yorkshire London boroughs Haringey Barking and Dagenham Hounslow Barnet Kensington and Chelsea Bexley Kingston upon Thames Brent Southwark Bromley Tower Hamlets Corporation of London Waltham Forest Enfield Westminster Greenwich Hackney Metropolitan district councils Tyne and Wear Bolton Wakefield Bury West Yorkshire archive Calderdale service (comprises Bradford, Coventry Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds Doncaster and Wakefield) Dudley Walsall Kirklees Wigan Liverpool Wirral Manchester Wolverhampton Rotherham St. Helens Salford Sheffield Stockport District councils Poole Bath Portsmouth Bristol Ribble Valley Canterbury Rochester upon Medway Chester Southampton Epsom and Ewell Thurrock Glanford York Hull North Wiltshire Peterborough