Rosemary Dunhill fears the review of local government structures might lead to damaging cuts in the archive service. The lives of archivists in record offices run by local authorities have been dominated in the last few years by the review of local government. The Government wished to simplify local government structures by doing away with one of the present tiers, and set up a Comission to determine the best structure for each part of the country, asserting moreover that there were substantial savings to be made in such a change. Members of the Historical Association will be aware of concerns about the impact of such changes on archive services, and indeed have played an active part in voicing these concerns and ensuring that Members of Parliament and other decision-makers were aware of the issues and of the strength of feeling about them.