HC Deb 28 June 2000 vol 352 c526W
Sir Teddy Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Chief Constable of Essex Police on the progress of police inquiries into allegations about the treatment of terminally ill children within the Southend Community Care Trust. [128061]

Mr. Charles Clarke

I understand from Essex Constabulary that the investigations are at an early and extremely sensitive stage.