Ministers may face legal action over documents on Queen’s hidden wealth

BEIS has until end of October to respond to request from information commissioner or risk being taken to court

Ministers could face contempt of court proceedings unless they respond to a request for documents that could reveal how the late Queen concealed part of her private wealth from the public.

Britain's transparency watchdog, the information commissioner, has threatened legal action against the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), which has stonewalled the request for two years.