Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendation from the Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published on 25 April 2018, what plans he has to develop a national policy for the training and use of chaperones in the treatment of children in healthcare services.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Interim Report on 25 April. The Report contains a series of recommendations for specific changes, several of which are directed at the Government. The Government welcomes the Report and is now considering the Inquiry’s recommendations very carefully. We will respond fully in due course.