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184. Hon Alison Xamon to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for Culture and the Arts:

I refer to the State Records Commission Annual Report 2015 – 2016, which states that there are approximately six million documents held in government agencies waiting transfer to the State Records Office, and I ask:

(a) where are these documents currently located;

(b) how many of these documents are held at offsite commercial storage providers;

183. Hon Alison Xamon to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for Culture and the Arts:

I refer to the State Records Commission Annual Report 2015 – 2016, which identifies the lack of a Digital Archive to accommodate an increasing volume of State archives created in digital format, and I ask:

(a) does the Government intend to develop infrastructure to enable the transfer of digital archives to the State Records Office;