HC Deb 26 March 1999 vol 328 cc414-5W
Mr. John M. Taylor

To ask the Minister of State, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list all Public Records Act 1958 instruments that have prescribed periods of extended closure of decennial census returns for England and Wales; and if he will list the class numbers, census years and periods mentioned in the schedules. [78445]

Mr. Hoon

Only Lord Chancellor's Instrument (Access to Public Records) No. 12, 1966, has prescribed a period of extended closure of decennial census returns for England and Wales. The schedule does not mention class numbers and census years; it prescribes a period of 100 years.