A review into how the Home Office handled historic child sex abuse allegations at Westminster in the 1980s has reportedly been unable to uncover any of the crucial missing files that prompted the investigation.
The BBC reports that the so-called 'Dickens Dossier', handed to the Home Office by former Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens, has not been found.
The Home Secretary has apologised following the resignation last week of the second chairwoman of the inquiry into historical allegations of child sex abuse.
Thersea May said the first meeting of the panel would be held next Wednesday but told MPs it was "very disappointing" the probe still does not have someone in the top job four months after being created.
In a Commons statement following the dramatic resignation on Friday of Fiona Woolf, Mrs May told MPs that a report by NSPCC chief Peter Wanless, into the way the Home Office dealt with an investigation into child abuse allegations between 1979 and 1999, will be published next week.
As Fiona Woolf becomes the second person to quit as head of the Westminster sex abuse probe, here is what you need to know about it so far.
The chair of an inquiry into an alleged historical Westminster paedophile ring has been accused of 'editing' details of her impartiality.