Withholding Of Public Records

EDM number 996 in 2013-14, proposed by George Galloway on 27/01/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Freedom of information.

That this House demands that more than a million files retained by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the Hanslope Park communications centre be released to the National Archives; points out that these papers date back 150 years and take in, among other crucial historical events, British involvement in the slave trade, the Crimean War, the Kenya Mau Mau emergency and the Cold War; believes that these papers are crucial to any impartial examination of UK foreign and colonial policy; and urges the Government to agree with the requests of prominent UK scholars to declassify these records and make them available to historians and archivists.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.