Reclosure figures on TNA’s website

FOI request reference: CAS-93069
Publication date: October 2022

Request

Your website currently provides information about those documents which have been reclosed. At present, you have only published the figures uo to 2018. Please will you publish the ones for subsequent years.

Outcome

Information provided.

Response

Thank you for your enquiry of 19 September 2022 in which you asked for the figures to be published for documents reclosed by The National Archives Reclosure Panel for years subsequent to 2018.

Your request has been handled under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. The FOI Act gives you the right to know whether we hold the information you want and to have it communicated to you, subject to any exemptions which may apply.

We have interpreted your enquiry as a request for the annual reclosure figures since 2018 to be provided to you. I can confirm that The National Archives holds information relevant to your request and we are pleased to be able to provide this to you. Please see attached the reclosure figures for 2019, 2020 and 2021. These figures will be produced on The National Archives website by 19 October 2022.

https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/cas-93069-reclosure-figures-2019.docx

https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/cas-93069-reclosure-figures-2020.docx

https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/cas-93069-reclosure-figures-2021.docx