Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish (a) all submissions and memos to Ministers and (b) correspondence with other government departments relating to the review by officials of the Geoffrey Dickens dossiers.

The Home Secretary has appointed Peter Wanless - the Chief Executive of NSPCC, and Richard Whittam QC to undertake a review of the investigation commissioned by the Permanent Secretary in response to allegations raised about the handling of information from Geoffrey Dickens by the Home Office. Terms of reference of this review were placed in the House Library on 7 July and make clear that the review will consider the information that was available to the investigator, as well as any further information they feel is relevant. We expect that they will report in 8 – 10 weeks and will publish this report in full.