§ Mr. AllanTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her Department's policy is in respect of the computer file formats used for the(a) distribution and (b) archiving of publicly available documents. [173354]
§ Mr. CabornThe Department follows the e-GIF standards as set out by the Office of the e-Envoy. The standard formats used for distributing publicly available documents are Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.
Publicly available documents committed to archive are stored on paper as per our obligations under the Public Records Act. The Department is moving to a full electronic document management system and documents held in this system will be stored in their original e-GIF compliant format.