HC Deb 05 May 2004 vol 420 c1606W
Mr. Horam

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs when the contract was signed(a) to digitise and (b) to micro film the returns for the 1911 Decennial Census of population for England and Wales; when the census returns for 1911 will be made available to the contractors; and if he will make a statement about the progress which has been made with the 1911 Census project. [169821]

Mr. Leslie

The National Archives is beginning to develop plans so that the public will enjoy the widest possible access to the 1911 census returns for England and Wales when they are released in 2012. At the present time no contract for the digitisation or microfilming of the census returns has been signed.