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Former Ministers: Departmental Records

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2026 to Question 1237 on Former Ministers: Departmental Records, whether his Department has guidance on that issue.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 29 May 2026
Target answer date: 2 Jun 2026
Answer: 3 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2026 to Question 1237 on Former Ministers: Departmental Records, whether his Department has guidance on that issue.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Guidance for the Management of Private Office Information & Records is published on gov.uk and sets out the legal and institutional framework for the management of ministerial records, the types of records that should and should not be preserved, ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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