HC Deb 10 June 2002 vol 386 cc959-60W
Mr. John Taylor

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will make a statement about Government policy on the acquisition of additional Public Record Office storage space to facilitate the transfer of the(a) 1921, (b) 1951, (c) 1961 and (d) 1971 census records from the Registrar-General's Department to the Public Record Office. [59065]

Ms Rosie Winterton

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 10 June 2002 [59066]. There is no Government policy to acquire additional storage space for the PRO to facilitate the transfer of these records from the Office for National Statistics. The PRO's storage capacity will be reviewed before the transfer of such records as the year of their availability to the public approaches.

Mr. John Taylor

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what the provisional timetable is for the transfer of the(a) 1921, (b) 1951, (c) 1961 and (d) 1971 decennial population census records for England and Wales to the Public Record Office. [59066]

Ms Rosie Winterton

Records of the decennial population census are closed for 100 years under Lord Chancellor's Instrument number 12. The records of the population census of(a) 1921, (b) 1951, (c) 1961 and (d) 1971 are currently retained by the Office of National Statistics with the approval of the Lord Chancellor under

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