Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 207554 on Ministry of Defence: Disclosure of Information, in what form the information on non-disclosure agreements is held centrally by his Department.

The Ministry of Defence does not regularly use non-disclosure agreements and they could be held across a number of areas in the Department in both paper file format and as digital records.

In the absence of either a central list or local lists of paper and digital files containing non-disclosure agreements, extensive searches would need to be under taken, the cost in effort for this would exceed the disproportionate cost limit of £850.