§ Mr. ByersTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will place in the Library copies of all board minutes and reports to the board of BMARC which were obtained to enable inspectors to carry out their report into the reasons for the collapse of the company and retained by his Department. [31008]
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§ Mr. Jonathan Evans[holding answer 26 June 1995]: No. Documents obtained by inspectors under statutory compulsory powers should in principle be used only for the purposes envisaged by the legislation. While I will always consider whether to release such documents for particular purposes where it is in the public interest to do so, it would not be appropriate for me to make information obtained during the course of an inspection generally available.