§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, pursuant to his answer of 23 February,294W Official Report, column 765, he will update the 1985–86 review of the arrangements to sell the electoral register to include consideration of (a) the ability of the electoral registrar being able to access copies of the information held by the community charge officer and (b) the restriction placed on the sale of the extract of the community charge register; if he will publish the 1985–86 review; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggTo the first part of the question the answer is no, for the reasons given in my previous answer. Copies of the consultation paper which instituted the 1985–86 review were deposited in the Library in December 1984; subsequently, regulations authorising the supply of the register in computer-compatible form were debated in the Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments on 21 January 1986.