HC Deb 06 December 1993 vol 234 cc32-3W
Mr. Alan Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many files marked "Not for National Audit Office eyes" are held by the Department; and how many are marked "Not for Public Accounts Committee eyes".

Mr. Forth

The Department has 39 files—out of a total of over 500,000—marked "Not for NAO eyes".

This marking is used in accordance with the agreement between the Treasury and the National Audit Office under which documents relating to the handling of relations between departments and the NAO and PAC are not automatically available to the NAO while they remain current.

There is no such marking as "Not for PAC eyes".