The Government has been accused of “insulting” the victims of the 2011 summer riots by burying their formal response to a report on the unrest and failing to act on its 63 recommendations.

New peers could cost the taxpayer about £1.2m, plus travel and other expenses, leaving PM with awkward questions over promise to cut cost of politics

Government sceptic Katherine Burch contacted Gavin Barwell, MP for Croydon Central, to see what life in Parliament is really like

Scotland Yard was dragged into the blue-chip hacking scandal last night after Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe was asked to release suppressed information from four little-known investigations into rogue private detective agencies.

The world’s largest tobacco firm created a database tracking every British MP’s opinion on plain cigarette packaging as part of its successful lobbying campaign to block the rules, it was claimed on Sunday.

Shortages of senior staff, disorganised local services and botched launch of NHS 111 phone line all blamed

Appeals bill soars over claims Atos ‘is getting more decisions wrong than ever before’

“Britain’s FBI” has ordered a powerful committee of MPs to take extraordinary security measures to protect the identities of blue-chip organisations that hired criminal private investigators.

Lord Mitchell, an entrepreneur and former party spokesman in the Lords, said that he initially supported the £42.6 billion scheme but had changed his mind

Tory strategist’s links to cigarette giant pile pressure on PM after  tobacco policy U-turn

The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill is now law after the Queen's royal seal of approval

Phillippa Williamson was allowed to run up bill in deal criticised as ‘quite astounding’ by MPs

Head of Serious Organised Crime Agency causes alarm with statement to MPs

Bonuses for senior Home Office officials should be frozen until the “staggering” backlog of immigration cases is cleared, a senior MP has urged.