Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the progress of police inquiries into historic child abuse cases.

The day-to-day investigation into cases of child sexual abuse, including abuse that has taken place in the past, is an operational matter for the police. The Home Office has funded Operation Hydrant, which is the national policing response to the oversight and co-ordination of all child abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence or those offences which have taken place in institutional settings