HC Deb 20 October 1993 vol 230 c242W
Mr. Carrington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he plans to release the records of the wartime Special Operations Executive.

Mr. Hurd

I said in my answer on 26 November 1992,Official Report, column 766, that work had started on reviewing the SOE archives. A first batch of files, covering SOE activities in the far east have been transferred to the Public Record Office and will be available to the public from 21 October. The next batches will cover Scandinavia and Africa and will be released as soon as possible after mid-1994.