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What to keep: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs guide to managing information

Guidance defining how long records should be retained before they are either transferred to National Archives for permanent preservation or securely destroyed.

Applies to England

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What to keep: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs guide to managing information

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This guidance defines how long records should be retained before they are either transferred to The National Archives for permanent preservation or securely destroyed. It relates to all corporate information held by the department, regardless of format.

Published 17 August 2018