§ Mr. Leeasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he proposes to introduce legislation to seek to amend the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976 so as to extend the anonymity rule to complainants and defendants in allegations of indecent assault contrary to section 14 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 or, alternatively, to seek to amend the 1976 Act so as to end the principle 628W of anonymity altogether; and if he will make a statement regarding the operation of the anonymity principle.
§ Mr. JohnWe have no present plans to do so. In the course of its current review of sexual offences, the Criminal Law Revision Committee will be considering the question of anonymity for complainants and defendants in such cases.