UPDATED 4.59PM: Judith Collins says it's over to the Prime Minister whether she'll be returned to Cabinet.

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She's today been cleared of allegations she undermined the boss of the Serious Fraud Office when she was Justice Minister.

Ms Collins resigned from Cabinet in the lead up to the election which she says was important if an inquiry was to be held.

"Resigning as a minister was absolutely the only course I could take with any honour.

"I wasn't going to stay in a role with serious allegations like that hanging over me."

SIS boss apologises

Apologies and assurances, from SIS boss Rebecca Kitteridge.

She's says she's personally apologised to Phil Goff, Andrew Little and John Key for the release of inaccurate information in 2011.

She accepts it was a mistake and led to misplaced criticism of Mr Goff.

"That doesn't mean that there is a culture or any kind of general sense that the organisation as a whole isn't compliant."

Rebecca Kitteridge says the agency is making improvements.

Collins cleared over smear campaign 

Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has denied telling blogger Cameron Slater she was gunning for former Serious Fraud Office boss Adam Feeley.

According to the report, Ms Collins told the inquiry she had no memory of having any discussion with Mr Slater about Adam Feeley and the last thing she wanted was for him to put stories up.

Ms Collins told the inquiry they were trying to shove the story away and Mr Slater was making it worse.

Mr Slater told the inquiry he'd put words around things, embellished them, and cost Judith Collins her job.

Collins feels for out-of-work staff

Ms Collins says it's been a tough time but her friends have seen her through it and she refuses to feel sorry for herself.

"The people I feel have been wronged are actually my staff. Six staff members lost their jobs through absolutely no fault of their own and there was nothing I could do to prevent that, so those are the people I feel sorry for."

But the inquiry didn't receive any of Collins' Facebook conversations, Parliamentary service phone records, or any record of attack blogger Cameron Slater calling Collins, despite admissions that conversations had taken place.  

The inquiry was carried out by a former High Court Judge and he's found that she wasn't involved in a campaign against Adam Feeley from the SFO.

It was always going to be difficult to prove given the claim was made by Cameron Slater and he's always denied Ms Collins was involved in any way.

The Prime Minister's said Ms Collins return to Cabinet will depend on the inquiry's findings but she isn't expected to be reinstated anytime soon.

Hotchin in the clear too? 

Public Relations consultant Carrick Graham issued a statement saying the report clearing Judith Collins also exonerates his client, former Hanover Finance boss, Mark Hotchin.

The report released today found the former Justice Minister was not directly involved in efforts to undermine former Serious Fraud Office boss Adam Feeley.

Carrick Graham says Mr Hotchin had also been the subject of numerous defamatory or misleading media reports - but there was never an intention to undermine Mr Feeley.

He says Mr Feeley brought the criticism on himself.