§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what files the Metropolitan police hold of material assembled by the Kray brothers; what their policy is on public access to those files; and if he will make a statement. [135715]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThis is a matter for the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police but I understand that nine files concerning the Kray brothers have been deposited in the Public Record Office. At the time of the last review the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council agreed that all but one of these should be withheld from public inspection for a period of at least 50 years from the date of the last action on the papers. The one other file is subject to the 30 year rule.