§ Harry CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many documents are held by his Department that are subject to security classification, broken down by category of classification. [107348]
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§ Mr. StrawThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office holds approximately 23 km of archived paper documents and nearly 2 million archived electronic documents; an estimated further 4 km paper files and 3 million electronic documents are held in current registries. No central record of classified documents is maintained and further breakdown could be provided only at disproportionate cost.