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Commons · Question 62559 · Tabled 25 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Grahame Morris
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Northumbria Police sought (a) permission, (b) guidance, and (c) clearance from her Department prior to the destruction of (i) documents and (ii) records on 29 and 30 April 2024 relating to (A)
Answer
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...