NEW Home Secretary Alan Johnson is setting up a ministerial committee to work out how to release the Hillsborough files.
And he will meet the families of the disaster victims within the next three weeks to decide how "justice is best served", 20 years after the event.
He confirmed that the Government will drop the 30-year secrecy rule covering police, Home Office and local authority documents previously kept under wraps.
And, at a 45-minute meeting with Merseyside MPs ,he for the first time confirmed that the pertinent documents could run to 20,000 pages, all of which will be carefully scrutinised.
The chairmanship of the ad hoc committee will be a minister of state either from his own department, or from the justice ministry, or one from a completely separate ministry who would act as an independent arbiter.
