The full files on the Hillsborough disaster could be released "within months if not weeks", it was reported today.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said hundreds of official documents about the tragedy in Sheffield 20 years ago could be made public 10 years early.

But a senior Whitehall source told a national newspaper that publication could come "within months if not weeks" following a meeting between Ms Smith, Justice Secretary Jack Straw and Sports Secretary Andy Burnham.

The chief constable of South Yorkshire Police said he hoped to be able to make public a large store of information on the Hillsborough disaster saying his force had "no secrets".

Meredydd Hughes said South Yorkshire Police held 300 boxes of material on the tragedy, not all of which was in the public domain.

Mr Hughes said he had not yet had any request for any information from the Government but was due to speak to the Home Secretary today.

The chief constable said: "South Yorkshire Police has no secrets, has a lot of information that we hope can be made public and, if it's possible to do so, we will." Mr Hughes denied there had been a cover-up by his force and said he would not have stood for it if there had been.

He added: "If I thought there had been a cover-up I would have dealt with it. I don't need an anniversary to make me want to put right an injustice."