The Home Office is pressing Scotland Yard for a comprehensive briefing on what it knows about the News of the World phone-hacking allegations, as well as files on any other cases where journalists have been suspected of breaking data protection laws.

The department's most senior civil servant, Sir David Normington, has written to the Met's assistant commissioner John Yates, asking for clarification on a number of points not dealt with when he ruled out reopening the police investigation.

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