§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now implement the outstanding recommendations of the report of the advisory group on video evidence chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot. [35364]
§ Mr. MacleanWe have implemented the majority of the recommendations made by the advisory group on video evidence, but we are not persuaded that the proposals for pre-trial cross-examination are in the best interests of children. We will keep those recommendations and the proposal to extend the child evidence measures to vulnerable adult witnesses under review in the light of our further work to secure practical improvements in the present arrangements for children to give evidence.