HL Deb 12 July 1995 vol 565 c109WA
Lord Glenarthur

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What progress has been made with the review of previously withheld papers for which the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs is responsible.

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

Since 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 (IRD) of the Foreign Office is about to be released.