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Child Protection

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I have here a copy of Hansard from 20 November 2008. The Secretary of State said:"““I endeavoured to see whether I was able to release the full, confidential serious case review to parliamentarians, but the clear professional advice given to me was that that would be the wrong thing to do, given the ruling of the Information Commissioner””." Later in the debate, he said that he had looked very hard at whether he could release the full case review."““Alongside the Information Commissioner's view, the clear advice that I received was that, if we were to set such a precedent, it would make it much harder in future””.—[Official Report, 20 November 2008; Vol. 483, c. 377-380.]" The Secretary of State gave every impression in the House that the Information Commissioner in that case had given his view. He set out that evening—