Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any files on child abuse have been passed to her Department by (a) other parts of the Government or (b) hon. Members; and in what year such files were so passed.

The Independent investigation commissioned by the Permanent Secretary considered what material this Department had received in respect of child sexual abuse. Copies of the Executive Summary of that review and the Terms of Reference were deposited in the House Library on 31 July 2013. On 7 July the Home Secretary announced that Peter Wanless would lead a review into this investigation. Terms of reference for this review have been placed in the House and we expect the work to conclude within 8-10 weeks. Any files passed to the Home Office, whether by Hon. Members or otherwise, which suggest criminal activity has occurred, are passed to the police.