Barry Gardiner
Main Page: Barry Gardiner (Labour - Brent West)Sir Jimmy Savile (BBC Inquiry)
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Maria Miller
My hon. Friend speaks with enormous passion on this subject, and I had the privilege of working with him on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill when we were in opposition. I agree with him that the seriousness of the situation is something that all the organisations that have been implicated need to look at. I reassure him that the police investigating the Savile inquiry are working with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to try to ensure that people who have been affected are forthcoming with evidence and that we can get to the root of this problem.
Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)
The whistleblowing legislation gives protection to those within an organisation who seek to expose a culture of wrongdoing. Will the Secretary of State look again at that legislation to see whether it can go further and impose a duty on individuals to blow the whistle in situations such as this?
Maria Miller
I note the hon. Gentleman’s comments. All these things are issues that we can and should be looking at.