§ Mr. AllanTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his Department's policy is in respect of the computer file formats used for the(a) distribution and (b) archiving of publicly available documents. [173361]
§ Mr. CaplinThe policy of the Ministry of Defence is to follow the "Guidelines for Government Websites", issued by the Office of the e-Envoy when making documents publicly available in electronic form. Most documents published on www.mod.uk are in Hypertext Mark-Up Language (HTML) or Portable Document Format (pdf).