§ 63. Mr. Chapmanasked the Minister for the Civil Service if she has any plans to reduce the estimated 7½ million shelf-feet of files and records in Government Departments.
§ Mr. HayhoeEfforts are continuously being made to keep the volume of paper in use to the necessary minimum. Files and records of no historical interest—over 90 per cent., of the total numbers—are destroyed when they are no longer needed by departments. And increasing use is being made of micro-film, magnetic tapes and discs and other modern systems of information storage and retrieval.