§ Mr. Emeryasked the Minister of Labour what percentage of his Department's office records and files date back over three years, five years and seven years.
§ Mr. Gunter:My Department has nine regional offices and approximately 1,000 local offices and to extract the desired information about all office records would be extremely costly in staff time. The following information, which is readily available, relates only to registered files and give the position at 31st December, 1967:
Per cent Over 7 years … … … 23.6 Over 5 years … … … 40.0 Over 3 years … … … 60.9