Deeper vetting of Andy Coulson would have been unlikely to reveal significant information about his alleged involvement in phone hacking, the UK's for...

The former head of the civil service has attacked the BBC and ITV for their "pathetic" decision to exclude independent candidates from their London Ma...

Is the civil service accountable to parliament?

Lord Prescott demanded an apology from two government ministers today, after a Civil Service investigation cleared him of misusing departmental credit...

Disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox is expected to make a personal statement to the Commons after a critical report into his activities with c...

MPs have been told they will get a chance to debate Liam Fox following the publication of the cabinet secretary's report into his conduct. In an un...

Liam Fox and his close ally Adam Werritty are facing the threat of investigations into whether their fund-raising activities broke the law. Police ...

Adam Werritty is being interviewed by senior civil servants over his links to Liam Fox, amid a deepening mystery over how he managed to fund his trave...

Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell will step down at the end of this year, Number 10 said on Tuesday. Britain's most senior civil servant will be ...

David Cameron has ordered a further report into Liam Fox's conduct - as Number 10 insisted the prime minister "absolutely" had full confidence in his ...

Liam Fox has apologised after a weekend of claims his friendship with Adam Werritty breached national security. In a statement on Sunday evening, h...

Ministers are locked in an extraordinary power battle with Britain's most senior civil servant over the scandal of taxpayer-funded credit cards. ...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The head of the civil service has been asked to review contacts between the media and Whitehall departments in the wake of the ph...