Question follow-through · 126054
Inquiries: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether guidance exists on the circumstances in which individuals identified in official Statutory Inquiries concerning safeguarding failures should be referred for criminal investigation.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 27 Apr 2026 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether guidance exists on the circumstances in which individuals identified in official Statutory Inquiries concerning safeguarding failures should be referred for criminal investigation.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
Public inquiries operate independently of criminal proceedings.Findings of an inquiry do not constitute criminal findings, but they can inform subsequent police investigations.Inquiries have processes whereby information indicating potential criminal cond...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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