Written question asked by Caroline Spelman (Conservative) on Monday, 26 March 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 28 March 2007. It was answered by Richard Caborn (Labour) on Wednesday, 28 March 2007 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Millennium Commission

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the topics were of the 10 Millennium Commission documents destroyed in the Iron Mountain fire in July 2006.

Answer: As noted in the reply given by Lord Davies of Oldham in another place on 2 November 2006, House of Lords, Official Report, column WA65, 509 boxes of Millennium Commission records were destroyed in a fire at the warehouse in Twelvetrees Crescent, Bow, London in July 2006. As further noted in the reply given by Lord Davies in another place on 22 January 2007, House of Lords, Official Report, column WA205, 10 documents within these 509 boxes are likely to have contained references to the millennium dome.

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