§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will update his answer of 26 January,Official Report, columns 670–71, showing the total amount spent by his Department on research into the sexual abuse of children in each of the years since 1979, listing :he name of each project, its cost and completion date.
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§ Mr. John PattenThe only information additional to my answer of 26 January is that the research project on children as victims of crime will be completed in September 1989 at a total cost of £98,000 for which the sums of £7,265 and £50,743 were spent respectively in the financial years ending March 1988 and 1989. The research project to examine the effectiveness of live TV links for child witnesses began on 1 February 1989 and will be completed in January 1990 at a cost of £45,000.