§ Mr. Newensasked the Attorney-General what progress has been made in microfilming registers of births, marriages and deaths for public examination and study after a hundred years have elapsed; and when he anticipates these records will be available in this form.
The Solicitor-GeneralThe birth and marriage records in the custody of the Registrar-General have been microfilmed. It is expected that microfilming of the death records will be completed by the middle of 1982. The possible availability of these for public examination and study is dependent upon the outcome of the study which the Lord Chancellor announced in another place on 8 December 1980.