§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many files marked "Not for National Audit Office Eyes" are currently held by his Department. [24862]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThere are 197 files in my Department out of a total of 1,134,270 marked "Not for National Audit Office Eyes".
The marking "Not for NAO eyes" is used in accordance with an agreement between the Treasury and the National Audit Office, under which documents relating to the handling of relations between Departments and the NAO and Public Accounts Committee are not automatically available to the NAO while they are current.