Home secretary Theresa May has announced that the government will release all documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster to the Hillsborough Independent Panel.

The announcement came amid a Parliamentary debate on the tragedy, which led to the deaths of 96 supporters at a FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

An official inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, the Taylor Report, was published in 1990 and concluded that "the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control".

Campaigners continued in their bid for answers about the events and decisions that led up to the tragedy, with the Commons debate triggered by an e-petition signed by 140,000 people.

May told MPs all papers will be released to the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which was set up under the former Labour administration and is chaired by the Bishop of Liverpool.

"No government papers will be withheld from the panel. No attempts to suppress publication will be made. No stone will be left unturned," said May.

"The principle is clear: full publication and minimal redaction, and the panel seeing all of the papers, uncensored and unredacted - as the families have demanded: the whole loaf and not snippets."