7 No Response

Protocol for adding/removing archive material

Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: Cabinet Office

Source — verbatim from the inquiry

Inquiry recommendation

A protocol for allowing additional material to be incorporated into the digital archive and for taking down material is recommended.

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:

The government has not accepted this recommendation.

Sources

Government response (2012-12-01): no_response Text: No formal government response published. Without the appointment of an Editor-in-Chief (Recommendation 6), no formal protocol for adding or removing archive material was developed. The archive exists as a static snapshot at The National Archives. Progress update (2012-12-01): Not Accepted No formal government response published. Without the appointment of an Editor-in-Chief (Recommendation 6), no formal protocol for adding or removing archive material was developed. The archive exists as a static snapshot at The National Archives.
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Response — verbatim from government

Cabinet Office

No formal government response published. Without the appointment of an Editor-in-Chief (Recommendation 6), no formal protocol for adding or removing archive material was developed. The archive exists as a static snapshot at The National Archives.

Cabinet Office · 1 Dec 2012

Evidence trail — what's actually happened since

No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.

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