People taking responsibility in Danandrewstan? Things have just got very dangerous for Premier Daniel Andrews.

Chris Eccles, the career bureaucrat who served both Labor and Liberal governments and until this morning was secretary of the most important government department, Premier and Cabinet, has announced his resignation.

His move comes after the Coates Inquiry yesterday demanded senior government figures hand over their phone records to in a bid to determine whether they contacted then-police chief commissioner Graham Ashton in the so-called “missing six minutes” on March 27, the date it was decided private security would be responsible Melbourne’s quarantine hotels.