HC Deb 10 November 1992 vol 213 cc726-7W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many papers his Department has currently withdrawn from the Public Record Office; if he will list their titles; and when he estimates that they will be returned.

Mr. Eggar

Government Departments have a statutory right under the Public Records Acts to retrieve records temporarily from the Public Record Office for their own administrative use. The Department of Trade and Industry currently has 55 records out on loan and these are listed. Records are returned as soon as departmental action has been completed.

Class No. Piece No. Title
BT11 38 International Order Commission: jurisdiction
BT11 38 Imperial preference: East African coffee shipped on optional bills of lading
BT11 38 International convention for abolition of import and export prohibitions: Ratification
BT11 38 Anglo-Turkish agreement: travellers samples 1912–1929
BT11 190 Convention on the abolition of export and import prohibitions. Question of withdrawal by the United Kingdom and other states
BT11 41 B Anglo-Soviet commercial treaty
BT11 41 B Merchandise Marks Act: Nicaraguan registration of initiation of British trade mark
Class No. Piece No. Title
BT11 41 B Germany-Haiti commercial treaty and Anglo-Haitian trealy
BT11 41 B Oil concessions in British Empire— Government control of companies
BT11 41 B Ceylon income tax effect on life assurance companies
BT11 41 B Merchandise Marks Act—hall marks— registration of in USA
BT11 41 B Portugal: Colonial Act draft—articles detrimental to British interests
BT11 41 B Convention for abolition of import and export restriction Government attitude
BT11 41 B Roumania—trade difficulties under new tariff
BT11 41 B USA—entry of British colonials into
BT11 685 Convention for the abolition of import and export prohibition
DSIR 26 3 Functions of local government board and government laboratory
DSIR 26 4 Stationery Office: inquiry into work carried out by department
DSIR 26 25 Committee on Scientific Staffs in Government Department: minutes
DSIR 26 26 Committee on Scientific Staffs in Government Department: miscellaneous papers
DSIR 26 27 Committee on Scientific Staffs in Government Department: report papers 1–23, 27–28 and 30–32
DSIR 26 76 Power alcohol denaturants
DSIR 26 83 Nose-opening rays—effect of infra-red radiation on breathing—report by DSIR and Medical Research Council
DSIR 26 113 Collection of papers including Adam Hilgar photogravure of spectrogram
DSIR 26 114 Procedures and methods: notes on preparation and correspondence, including Adam Hilgar ultra-violet spectroscope
DSIR 26 120 Food and Drugs Act 1876—reference court cases
DSIR 26 121 Food and Drugs Act 1876—reference court cases
DSIR 26 122 Food and Drugs Act 1876—reference court cases
DSIR 26 189 Analyses—general
DSIR 26 199 —Index of analysis methods
Workbooks as below:
DSIR 26 202 H. J. Helm
DSIR 26 203 H. J. Helm
DSIR 26 204 H. J. Helm: Index to analytical work giving file reference
DSIR 26 210 J. H. Holmes
DSIR 26 212 C. H. Burge and E. Young
DSIR 26 213 C. H. Burge
DSIR 26 215 C. H. Burge subject index
DSIR 26 216 R. Bannister
DSIR 26 219 G. N. Stoker
DSIR 26 236 W. G. Scott
DSIR 26 237 W. G. Scott
DSIR 26 238 W. G. Scott
DSIR 26 240 W. G. Scott
DSIR 26 241 W. G. Scott
DSIR 26 252 Press cuttings—customer general order books
DSIR 26 256 Book of Signatures
DSIR 26 338 Registered Laboratory Files— Miscellaneous analyses and investigations
BT31 1 National Savings Bank Association Ltd
BT31 682 Consolidated Assurance Company
BT31 1161 Industrial Newspaper Company Ltd
BT58 419 Companies Department: correspondence and Papers COS 6585
BT58 423 Ditto 256/1
BT58 425 Ditto 623/4
BT 226 4978 A. E. Francis
POWE 33 1746 Petroleum: Libya development