HC Deb 20 May 1996 vol 278 c60W
32. Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department on what basis records relating to members of the royal family are not released to the Public Record Office. [28793]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

As announced in 1993, in the White Paper on Open Government, public records relating to the royal family will be treated in the same way as all other records and closed for longer than 30 years only if they fall into one or more of the three criteria governing closure.