§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money has been spent on the digitisation of content in libraries in Buckingham since 1997. [161322]
§ Estelle MorrisThe information requested is not held centrally. However, Buckinghamshire county council is a partner in the Thames Pilot Project, which received £328,000 from the New Opportunities Fund to help establish a website depicting the history of the River Thames and the communities which lie along its length. Separately, in 2003 Buckinghamshire digitised over 500 images of Victorian prisoners held at Aylesbury Gaol to be displayed on the council website at a cost of approximately £2,000. This was in addition to the previous digitisation of over 23,000 historic images of Buckinghamshire in 1994, of which 425 relate directly to Buckingham.