HC Deb 30 July 1959 vol 610 cc129-30W
Mr. Rawlinson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet received a report from the Criminal Law Revision Committee.

Mr. R. A. Butler

Yes. I asked the Committee in March to consider what alterations to the criminal law should be made to provide for the punishment of a person who, without committing an assault, invites a child to handle him indecently or otherwise behaves indecently towards a child. The Committee submitted their report in June They recommended that any person who commits an act of gross indecency with or towards a child under the age of 14 or who incites a child under that age to such an act with him or another should be guilty of an offence, and embodied their recommendations in a draft Bill. The report will be published shortly.

The Government accept the Committee's recommendations and propose to take an early opportunity to implement them.