AQW 22897/22-27

Ms Kate Nicholl
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 19/02/2025
Answered On Date: 01/04/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 21423/22-27, to detail (i) whether his Department would recognise Shapefiles of historic local government boundaries as an authoritative representation of those boundaries where such boundaries were produced by an organisation other than the Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland; and (ii) the circumstance under which recognition would be granted.

Answer:

My Department has responsibility for historical maps and makes available the six inch historical maps for 1829-1986 on its Historical Maps Viewer. The recognition of formats or representations of historical boundaries does not fall within the remit of the Public Records Act.