Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what instructions or guidance officials of her Department have given to members of the Independent Inquiry Panel into child sexual abuse about speaking in public about the work of that Panel.

Before the panel began its substantive work, and the secretariat was fully established, limited guidance was offered to those panel members who needed it.

Panel members are now supported by their own independent secretariat and Counsel. The secretariat will have its own procedures on speaking in publicabout the work of the Inquiry, although we would expect any procedures to respect the
confidentiality of meetings held with survivors.