We strive to be an open and transparent organisation. In addition to responding to government’s requests for particular information to be published, we aim to proactively share as much information as possible and make it available on our website.
We often publish additional content to that which is required through the government’s transparency agenda and this type of additional or discretionary content will be clearly highlighted.
You can also find information we make available about our organisation by visiting our publication scheme pages. We will regularly add information to these pages.
Find information about our records and information management services used across government in information management reports and action plans.
Much of the information on our Transparency pages is available on the data.gov.uk website.
Find data on our electricity use and read about what we do to reduce our carbon emissions and promote biodiversity.
Locally-based public sector organisations such as magistrates' courts, prisons, coroners’ courts or NHS bodies are required to transfer some of their records for historical preservation to 'places of deposit' – local archive services appointed by The National Archives under the Public Records Act 1958.
View how we spend public money and the financial information we submit to Treasury.
Discover how many Freedom of Information requests we receive and how we have responded to them.
See how many documents we deliver to the public and how people rate our services.
Find out the commitments the government has made in terms of procurement and contracting.
Find out how many documents we digitise and about the websites we make accessible through our web archive.
See how The National Archives is structured, find out about staff diversity and discover the results of our staff engagement survey.
Find information on records being transferred to The National Archives under the 20-year rule.
Our takedown and reclosure policy describes the circumstances in which information in open records may be subsequently closed by The National Archives.
