Mr. Alan WilliamsTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department 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. John M. TaylorThere are 45 files in the Lord Chancellor's Department—out of a total of 90,974—marked "Not for National Audit Office eyes". These refer to individual file parts. For each National Audit Office study, a number of divisions may be involved and each may possess a file with a number of parts.
The marking "Not for National Audit Office eyes" is used in accordance with an agreement between the Treasury and the National Audit Office, under which documents relating to the handling of relations between Departments and the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee are not automatically available to the National Audit Office while they are current.
There is no marking "Not for Public Accounts Committee eyes".