Mr. Mark Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many of the 105,000 enumerators employed during the Census had been unemployed immediately before their engagement for that purpose.
§ Sir K. JosephThe precise figure asked for is not immediately available, although it is estimated at about 1,000. Arrangements are being made to have the information extracted from the appropriate documents when they have been collated centrally later in the summer.
§ Mr. Staintonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when the policy and procedures of retaining census forms for 100 years in the custody of the Public Record Office were last reviewed; to what extent previous census forms are on average consulted and for what official purposes; and what are the practices in relation to the final disposal of the forms, including their availability to social and historical workers and to genealogists.
§ Sir K. JosephAll the information required is not immediately available and I will write to my hon. Friend.