eRDM documents and records: FOI release

Information requested

- A summary list of the number of documents/records in eRDM which have been stored each day by business classification
- A summary list of the number of documents/records which were deleted before their retention period had expired including information on what total was for each business category per day since January 2016

Response

I have provided a breakdown of the number of documents stored in eRDM on a daily basis during the calendar month of July. It is not possible to provide a breakdown by business classification:

1 July 2020 – 13,888
2 July 2020 – 14,078
3 July 2020 – 15,376
4 July 2020 – 2,855
5 July 2020 - 758
6 July 2020 – 14,342
7 July 2020 – 16,427
8 July 2020 – 15,773
9 July 2020 – 12,579
10 July 2020 –11,899
11 July 2020 – 659
12 July 2020 - 484
13 July 2020 – 15,819
14 July 2020 – 15,146
15 July 2020 – 18,579
16 July 2020 – 14,229
17 July 2020 – 14,424
18 July 2020 – 355
19 July 2020 - 383
20 July 2020 – 11,899
21 July 2020 – 12,927
22 July 2020 – 11,699
23 July 2020 – 11,806
24 July 2020 – 12,448
25 July 2020 – 411
26 July 2020 – 5,426
27 July 2020 – 18,488
28 July 2020 – 13,078
29 July 2020 – 12,569
30 July 2020 – 11,030
31 July 2020 – 12,917

I can confirm that no documents/records were deleted from eRDM before their retention period expired.

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