§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects the records of the public inquiry into the collapse of Ronan Point to be available for authorised inspection; and if he will make a further statement concerning previously reported losses of documents.
§ Mr. GowI have written to the hon. Member, informing him that the papers will be available for inspection from 28 January.
In my letter of 10 December 1984 I informed the hon. Member that the inquiry's papers recovered from storage last October are incomplete. Thorough searches continue to be made for the remaining papers, and copies of some have been found. But it is possible that some were destroyed when the papers were reviewed in 1973 under the normal procedures for the review of all Departmental documents after five years.