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Transparency data: Home Office retention and disposal standards

Home Office

July 12
14:05 2022

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Outlines how long Home Office units keep corporate information held by the department.

The standards apply to all media of records, including (but not restricted to) paper, digital, audio and video tapes, films, DVDs and CD ROMs.

Published 23 June 2015
Last updated 12 July 2022 +show all updates
  1. The standard retention period has changed from '0 to 5 years destroy' to '2 years destroy'. The last review date and next review date has also been updated.

  2. Updated to add 2 new record types: e-discovery and Nuix searches.

  3. Standard approaches updated.

  4. Under '2.2 Information requests', responses to routine subject access requests (SAR) changed from 5 years to 2 years.

  5. Added DPIA information.

  6. Updated details.

  7. Updated information.

  8. Guidance updated.

  9. Guidance updated.

  10. Row on 'contracts' added.

  11. Updated guidance published.

  12. Updated guidance published

  13. First published.

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