Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to commitment to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee in her letter dated 28 November 2016, whether all of her Department's files relating to Orgreave have been released.

Following the announcement on 31 October 2016 of the Home Secretary’s decision not to establish an inquiry into the events at Orgreave, the Home Office reviewed all 33 files it held relating to the Miner’s Strike of 1984/85 and committed to transfer all of them to The National Archives (TNA). This commitment was fulfilled on 27 June 2017 with the transfer of 15 remaining files to TNA, following the 18 files that were transferred on 18 February 2017. The 1984 plan for police operations at Orgreave was not found in the Home Office papers as such matters are for the respective police force(s) involved and it is not common practice for these plans to be submitted to the Home Office or other Government departments.

The transferred files were subject to a small number of limited redactions for personal data and other sensitivity reasons following established government record review processes, including oversight by the independent Advisory Council on National Records and Archives.