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Private owners encouraged to deposit records

Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: The National Archives

Source — verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

Private owners of documents and other material made available to the Panel, especially where those records have been disclosed on the Hillsborough website, should be encouraged to deposit their records in the archives.

Hillsborough Panel, Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 12 Sep 2012 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:

Government response: No Response. Last substantive update was December 2012. No recent public evidence of further progress.

Sources

Government response (2012-12-01): no_response Text: No formal government response published. Private organisations including the FA and Sheffield Wednesday FC contributed documents to the Panel's disclosure process. The encouragement of further deposits of private records is ongoing but no formal mechanism has been established. Progress update (2012-12-01): In Progress No formal government response published. Private organisations including the FA and Sheffield Wednesday FC contributed documents to the Panel's disclosure process. The encouragement of further deposits of private records is ongoing but no formal mechanism has been established.
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Response — verbatim from government

●The National Archives

No formal government response published. Private organisations including the FA and Sheffield Wednesday FC contributed documents to the Panel's disclosure process. The encouragement of further deposits of private records is ongoing but no formal mechanism has been established.

The National Archives · 1 Dec 2012

Evidence trail — what's actually happened since

No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.

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