§ Mr. Ian Lloydasked the Minister for the Civil Service whether he will publish the study of computer availability and usage, now being undertaken by the Central Statistical Office, as a White Paper.
§ Mrs. HartProgress reports will be made by the Central Statistical Office but their precise form has not yet been settled. At the present time first steps in the design of a macro-economic data bank are in hand, and experiments with data terminals to the Central Computer Bureau, Norwich, are planned for later this year. As the experience of other Governments confirms, however, an advanced computer-based information system of this kind can only be evolved gradually over a period of years.