Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Debate

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Department: Home Office

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Baroness Walmsley Excerpts
Monday 22nd June 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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My Lords, the Home Secretary speaks every day to operational partners—the NCA, the police and the NPCC. It is not just that we are aware of the dangers of children being at home with their computers and not at school; significant effort has been undertaken to mitigate some of the potential for harm to children over this period. As for production of the report, that will come in due course.

Baroness Walmsley Portrait Baroness Walmsley (LD) [V]
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My Lords, on 10 September 2018, the noble Lord, Lord Agnew, promised, in response to my question about an extra seminar on mandatory reporting, that

“the Government are committed to ensuring that legislation can adequately deal with this”—[Official Report, 10/9/18; col. 2093.]

issue, and would scope it fully “during the current Parliament”. Has that scoping taken place and, if so, what was the result?

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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I cannot answer on behalf of my noble friend Lord Agnew but I will certainly get him to respond to the noble Baroness.