Mr. John M. TaylorTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will take steps to encourage communications between members of the public who make use of the facilities provided by48W the Public Record Office and individual members of the Advisory Council on Public Records about those facilities. [90169]
§ Mr. VazFor some years the Council has published information about itself and a list of members, with an invitation to communicate with the secretary, on notice boards at the Public Record Office in Kew and the Family Records Centre in Islington and on the Advisory Council's pages on the Public Record Office website.
Some members of the public who are users of the Public Record Office facilities have communicated with members in order to bring matters of concern to them to the attention of the Council.
Mr. John M. TaylorTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what guidance the Lord Chancellor has issued since May 1997 to members of the Advisory Council on Public Records on the provisions of (i) Instrument No. 12 (Access to Public Records) of 1966, and (ii) the Census (Confidentiality) Act 1991. [90170]