MPs voted to release all documents, including cabinet minutes, relating to the Hillsborough disaster.
Parliament were debating whether to release documents relating to the 1989 disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died.
The debate was triggered after 140,000 people, including 100 MP’s, signed an e-petition asking for the issue to be debated.
Home Secretary Theresa May said that the Government is fully committed to releasing documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster.
She said: “I will do everything in my power to ensure the families and the public get the truth.
“No government papers will be withheld from the panel, no attempts to suppress publication will be made, no stone left unturned.”
Politicians from all parties joined the calls for documents to be released in full. However, members agreed that personal information should not be released without showing it to the families of those who died first.
Steve Rotherham, MP for Liverpool Walton, whose constituency is home to Liverpool’s Anfield stadium, read out the names of those who died so that they could be recorded in Hansard for the first time.
“It is claimed that truth is the first casualty of war, but the same can be said of Hillsborough.”, he said.
He called on prime minister David Cameron to apologise to the victim’s families over the tragedy.
The Labour MP attacked the “smears” and “establishment cover-up” which led to the fans being blamed for the tragedy.
Mr Rotherham also attacked claims that Liverpool fans turned up late and without tickets.
Andy Burnham said that there was an orchestrated campaign by the media to blame Liverpool fans in the aftermath of the disaster.
Several MP’s praised the people of Sheffield for their support during the disaster, including helping the injured and letting people use their phones.
Sheffield South East MP Clive Betts, who was leader of Sheffield City Council at the time and was at the game, said he remembered returning the following day and crying.
He said: “What else could you do? This was in our city, in my football ground, 96 people had died before our eyes. What else could you do?”
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