§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) of 18 April,Official Report, column 365, for what reason no records of correspondence received by his office prior to April 1989 any longer exist.
§ The Prime MinisterIt is not cost-effective to retain full records of all correspondence received by my office. However, from April 1989 onwards brief records of selected correspondence—and from 1992 brief records of all correspondence—have been entered on a computer database.