Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a list of the (a) titles, (b) file names and (c) dates of creation of each document held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment on the Merlin database.

Officials are working at pace to formally transfer the records on the Merlin database to The National Archives (TNA), whilst ensuring that sensitive information is protected in line with the Data Protection Act 2018 and national security requirements. Once transferred, the records will be listed and accessible on TNA’s website.