Mr. Robert Watt:

The OGCIO is rolling out the electronic records system and we have it in the Department now. In effect, it is an electronic filing system whereas in the past one would have had a paper file. One now has an electronic filing system so that rather than being printed off, photocopied and put in a file, electronic files are dragged across. If the Deputy and I were corresponding about a leasing issue, for example, there would previously have been a folder containing that correspondence whereas it is now an electronic record and all emails and letters are dragged across into the file which is kept. If people look at the issue in future, the archivist will provide them with a memory stick rather than having us hand over volumes of paper. That is how it will work. The savings are enormous and it will be a good deal easier for future historians looking at our deliberations to search files and track what went on in however many years' time.