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Orgreave

Commons · Question 62558 · Tabled 25 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 30 Jun 2025

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Asked by Grahame Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's 2024 election manifesto's commitment to hold an investigation or inquiry into events at Orgreave on 18 June 1984, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to

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Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 30 Jun 2025

Police forces are independent of government and decisions concerning the management of their records are for them to make in accordance with their respective review, retention and disposal policies. However, the Government expects any such decisions to be...