A government department spent thousands of pounds attempting
to suppress emails showing that civil servants believed their minister may have
misled MPs. Officials in the CLG battled
for nearly a year to prevent the release of internal correspondence relating to
the former Housing minister Grant Shapps. When they were finally forced to back
down by the Information Commissioner and release the emails they showed that
civil servants believed Mr Shapps, who is now Conservative Party chairman, had
made inaccurate statements about the number of affordable homes being built in Britain . Read more on the Independent website.
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