Written question asked by Lord Allan of Hallam on Tuesday, 11 May 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 26 May 2004. It was answered by Yvette Cooper (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 May 2004 on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Question: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what his Department's policy is in respect of the computer file formats used for the (a) distribution and (b) archiving of publicly available documents.

Answer: Mr. Allan: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what his Department's policy is in respect of the computer file formats used for the (a) distribution and (b) archiving of publicly available documents. [173360] Yvette Cooper: All documents published on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website, both current and archived, are in either HTML and/or PDF format, with the exception of some statistical data which are available in Excel spreadsheet format.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 173360; 421 c1651W
Session: 2003-04
Subjects: Computers Archives ICT Government departments Electronic publishing Standards Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk