Question follow-through · 3754
Chinook Helicopters: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2026 to Question 111, on what date, and at whose instruction, were any of the other documents relating to the Chinook ZD576 first closed to the public.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jun 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2026 to Question 111, on what date, and at whose instruction, were any of the other documents relating to the Chinook ZD576 first closed to the public.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) have conducted an extensive search of The National Archive’s (TNA) search engine, Discovery, and have been unable to locate any further MOD records relating to Chinook ZD576 being listed as closed to the public. The MOD can c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Ministry of Defence: Public Records
2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions have documents relating to incidents, accidents, near misses and criminal activity have been closed to the public for 100 years, in each of the last ten years.
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2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to what matters do the documents which have been closed to the public for 100 years in each of the last ten years relate.
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2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what oversight, involvement, responsibility and accountability Ministers have for decisions relating to the closure of documents to the public for 100 years.
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2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) oversight, (b) involvement, (c) responsibility and (d) accountability he has have for decisions relating to the closure of documents to the public for any period of time.
Chinook Helicopters: Accidents
2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any documents relating to the (a) Chinook Air Crash on 2 June 1994 and to (b) Mk 2 Chinook have been destroyed.