Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

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

The FCO’s human resource, personnel security and records management departments are not aware of any files on child abuse which have been passed to the FCO from other parts of government or from Honorable Members.