Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 3:37 pm on 21 November 2016.

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Photo of Sarah Newton Sarah Newton The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 3:37, 21 November 2016

I thank the right hon. Lady for her question, and I pay tribute to her for the work she has done in campaigning so assiduously for justice for her constituents. I reassure her and everyone who is here that those lessons have been learned from the past. The inquiry is an incredibly important part of what the Government are doing to learn lessons from the past and make sure that we are doing everything that we can to keep children in our country safe. As a result of people coming forward to the inquiry, as I said in my response to the urgent question, more than 80 referrals a week are being made to the police. Information and evidence gathered by the inquiry are being used to seek the prosecutions that absolutely need to be made, as the right hon. Lady described.[This section has been corrected on 23 November 2016, column 3MC — read correction]