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 22 September 2022 +show all updates
Removed the 2 entries relating to Internal and External Publications and ISBNs from section 2.5 as ISBNs are no longer issued as they are not a legal requirement.
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.
Updated to add 2 new record types: e-discovery and Nuix searches.
Standard approaches updated.
Under '2.2 Information requests', responses to routine subject access requests (SAR) changed from 5 years to 2 years.