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Laming Inquiry

Volume 400: debated on Monday 3 March 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health which recommendations of the Laming inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie the Government intend to implement; and by what date each will be implemented. [95619]

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which recommendations in the Laming Report the Government agree with and intend to put in practice; and by when. [96033]

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) pursuant to the answer of 29 January 2003, Official Report, column 879, on Victoria ClimbiƩ, when the recommendations from the Laming Inquiry will be implemented; [95700](2) if he will set out for each

(a) category 1 and (b) category 2 recommendations in the Laming Report, (i) whether he accepts or rejects it, (ii) if accepted, what

steps he is taking to act on it and to what timescale and (iii) if rejected, what his reasons are and what alternative actions he proposes to take. [96634]

As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health made clear in the House, we will make our substantive response to the report as part of the Green Paper on Children at Risk, which will be published in the spring. We have already begun to implement many of Lord Laming's recommendations and we will say more in the Green Paper.