Historic Sexual Offences: Investigations

Lord Paddick Excerpts

Wednesday 4th March 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

I read the words of Diana Brittan. I hope that the whole House will take comfort from the fact that, when the House of Lords Appointments Commission decides whether people will come into your Lordships’ House, it should consider whether that person will bring the House into disrepute.

[Lord Paddick (LD)]

My Lords, does the Minister not agree that complainants should always initially be cared for as genuine survivors of sexual offences but investigations should always be an objective search for the truth, and that there is no contradiction in such an approach?

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

I think that the noble Lord knows that I agree with him.