To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer of 21 February 2008, Official Report, column 900W, on the Central Manchester Development Corporation: archives, which archives of the Central Manchester Development Corporation are within the Government Office for the North-West registry. (287405)

There are no Central Manchester Development Corporation archives held in GONW. All such files were sent to an external storage facility in March 1998 with instructions to be securely destroyed on 1 April 2006.