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Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Source — verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The digital archive and the audio-visual material should remain available for the foreseeable future at Liverpool and Sheffield with advisory and support staff as necessary; it should be accessible according to the access protocol agreed by the Panel.

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 reports this recommendation as delivered. Implemented.

Sources

Government response (2012-12-01): Accepted Text: Implemented. The Digital Archive was made publicly accessible. On Disclosure Day (12 September 2012), the Panel launched a website containing 450,000 pages of material collated from 85 organisations. The archive website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk) provided public access to all disclosed docume Progress update (2012-12-01): Completed Implemented. The Digital Archive was made publicly accessible. On Disclosure Day (12 September 2012), the Panel launched a website containing 450,000 pages of material collated from 85 organisations. The archive website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk) provided public access to all disclosed docume
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Response — verbatim from government

●Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Implemented. The Digital Archive was made publicly accessible. On Disclosure Day (12 September 2012), the Panel launched a website containing 450,000 pages of material collated from 85 organisations. The archive website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk) provided public access to all disclosed documents. This has been preserved by The National Archives. (Source: Hillsborough Independent Panel Report 2012)

Department for Culture, Media and Sport · 1 Dec 2012

Evidence trail — what's actually happened since

No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.

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