Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has (a) lost or (b) destroyed (i) files and (ii) information it held on the AEA Technology Pension Scheme.

Records are reviewed in consultation with The National Archives to determine which should be permanently preserved and which should be securely destroyed. Departmental policy ensures that records in official systems are stored securely until this process has been completed. In line with departmental policy on 20-year-old records, a number relating to AEA Technology have been selected for destruction.