Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the timescale is for the completion of the transfer of service records from 1 January 1963 from his Department's contracted storage site to the National Archives.

The current Service Records transfer project from the Ministry of Defence Main archive in Swadlincote, Derbyshire to The National Archives is due to be completed by the end of the 2026-27 financial year.