§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of the review of previously withheld papers for which he is responsible. [33903]
§ Mr. RifkindSince the review was announced in 1992, some 5,500 previously withheld papers have been released into the public domain. These represent some 80 per cent. of the total reviewed, and have included material on Rudolf Hess, the Russia Committee, the Special Operations Executive, SOE, Suez, the Cuban missile crisis and the Malayan emergency. A first tranche of papers relating to the information research department of the Foreign Office is about to be released.