Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for publishing a Government response to the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

The Government is truly grateful to victims and survivors who bravely came forward to share their perspectives and experiences with the Inquiry. Their testimony has helped to shed further light on the horrific sexual abuse suffered by children, and the extent to which children across England and Wales have been failed by institutions that should have protected them.

We owe it to the victims and survivors to give the Inquiry’s recommendations proper time, consideration, and attention, so the Government will now carefully consider all of the findings and recommendations, before responding fully within the Inquiry’s six-month timeframe.