Why aren&#39;t Cabinet meeting records released after 20 years?
<p><a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/cabinet-gov/meetings-papers.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A page on the National Archives' website states the following</a>:</p>

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  <p>Records of cabinet meetings are confidential documents and only transferred to The National Archives after 30 years - the 30-year rule.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-year_rule" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia mentions a "Thirty-year rule"</a>, though claims that this has now been changed to 20 years. Why doesn't that apply in this case?</p>

<h2>They <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/51/section/3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">are</a></h2>

<p>Well, almost. They are in the <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-role/transparency/20-year-rule/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">process</a> of reducing the time from 30 to 20 years by doing 2 years at a time between 2013 and 2022 - right now it’s a 23 year rule.</p>

<p>I guess you found a webpage that hasn’t been updated.</p>

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