§ Harry CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to place in the Public Records Office(a) the MI5 files and (b) other records relating to Errol Flynn; and if he will make a statement. [29231]
§ Mr. BlunkettThe Security Service systematically reviews and where appropriate releases historical records to the Public Record Office in accordance with the criteria agreed with them and endorsed by the Advisory Council.
The Security Service has reviewed and released all archived files covering the First World War. Moving on to the Second World War, the second phase in its release programme, the service released in November 2001 its fourth tranche of files on the period up to the end of that war. The service is reviewing its inter-war records in preparation for further releases. It will then move on to the period after the Second World War. If there is any record about Errol Flynn, it will be reviewed as part of this process. The timing of this depends on the resources that the Service is able to devote to the process.
The Home Office can find no other documents about Errol Flynn.