Correspondence with Home Secretary regarding policing at Orgreave published
20 November 2016
The Home Affairs Committee publishes correspondence with the Home Secretary regarding policing at Orgreave.
- Letter from Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary, 11 November 2016
- Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary, 14 November 2016
- Home Affairs Committee
The Committee has requested a series of further information about the records held and examined by the Home Office in relation to the violent confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel Corporation coking plant in Orgreave on 18 June 1984, following an initial response from the Home Secretary.
Chair's comment
Yvette Cooper MP, Chair of the Committee, said:
"We now know that the Home Office holds 30 paper files relating to the miners' strike and that a number of them are relevant to events at Orgreave. But we still aren't clear how many of them the Home Secretary looked at before taking her decision to rule out an inquiry and how many of the files will now be made public. We need answers to those questions.
I have therefore asked the Home Office again for this information – and have written to both the IPCC and South Yorkshire Police – so that we can find out how much information still hasn't been made public about what happened at Orgreave."
Further information
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