§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what records relating to the activities of MI5 after 1918 are planned to be released to the Public Record Office; what years these records will cover; when these records will be released; and if he will make a statement. [46798]
§ Mr. StrawThe Security Service has started work on a review of its files relating to the Second World War. I hope that it will be possible to release some, but not all, of these files by the end of this year. Consideration will then be given to reviewing the records surviving from the inter-war period. As I announced in the House on
514W25 February 1998, Official Report, column 346. I hope to make a statement before the summer recess on files held by the Security Service.