HC Deb 19 June 1992 vol 209 cc717-8W
Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his present estimate of the date of release of remaining Foreign Office files FO/1093 (pieces 1 to 5) on the Rudolf Hess case to the Public Record Office.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The second batch of the Hess files in the FO 1093 series should be released to the Public Record Office in early July.

Mr. Morgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now release the files relating to Rudolf Hess for the period since the Nuremburg trials.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

All Foreign and Commonwealth Office files relating to Rudolf Hess for the period since the Nuremberg trials and up to 1961 are now open at the Public Record Office. Records since 1962 will be released as provided for in the Public Records Acts 1958 and 1967, 30 years after their creation.