Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts
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Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

  • @rockandsockEnglish
    9•5 months ago

    Isn’t 4.5 million pounds just the tea and biscuit budget for parliament?

    They want to destroy historical documents to save a rounding error in the government budget?

    Let one of big wealthy universities look after the historically significant ones. That should save a bunch of money right there.