Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 4 April 2018 (HL6553), what is the current status of the investigation of the Independent Office for Police Conduct into 33 police officers in connection with cases of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.

The IOPC is independent of Government and the police and is responsible for the investigations it carries out. We understand that the IOPC’s investigation into South Yorkshire Police’s response to non-recent allegations of child sexual abuse in Rotherham remains ongoing and its website does include further background: https://policeconduct.gov.uk/investigations/rotherham-csa-investigations-south-yorkshire-police.