§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 14 July,Official Report, column 533, what records are retained relating to the child migrant scheme.
§ Mr. BowisThe Department holds some 105 files relating to policy on the child migrant schemes, dating from 1910 to 1959. Fifty of these have been opened to the public under the normal provisions of the public records legislation. The remainder are closed. So far as we are currently aware, the Department does not hold case files on individuals who emigrated under the child migrant schemes, but we are making further inquiries about this.