Written Question·Home Office·UIN 62557

Orgreave

Tabled: 25 June 2025

Answered: 30 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Grahame Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will investigate the destruction of documents by Northumbria Police on (a) 29 and (b) 30 April 2024 relating to the 1984 miners’ strike and Orgreave.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

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...

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