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Emails will be accessible on the Home Office's main IT system for as long as they are held by an individual user. This applies equally to Ministers, officials and special advisers. Where appropriate, emails are retained on the Department's corporate file plan, which is subject to normal retention and disposal schedules.Once deleted, emails might still be retrievable from the system for up to 30 days. In exceptional cases, emails may be restored from back-up records. These are usually held for up to six months, but do not constitute a complete record of data held over that period. |