including portfolio-related emails, tweets, WhatsApp messages, diaries, notes etc, must be sent to the national archives.

A spokesman for the archives said that when a minister leaves office after a change of government or resignation, ministerial records, ie records made or received in connection with the minister’s ministerial responsibilities, must be provided.

General Records Authority 38 (GRA38) says these include appointment diaries, final speeches and media statements, daily itinerary papers, official briefings, portfolio-related correspondence, subject files on portfolio business, official tweets and WhatsApp messages, and records of deliberations on official business.

The spokesman said most ministers do not usually lodge their papers directly with the national archives and they must not destroy, otherwise dispose of, or alter a record when leaving office.

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