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<p>In February 2013, the Permanent Secretary commissioned an investigation into information
the Home Office received in relation to child abuse allegations, between 1979 and
1999. That investigation was unable to locate 114 potentially relevant Home Office
files.</p><p>On 7 July 2014 the Home Secretary appointed Peter Wanless and Richard
Whittam QC to carry out an independent review of the 2013 investigation.</p><p>On
29 July 2014, the Home Office Permanent Secretary directed that a physical search
targeted on specific areas of the Department be undertaken to see if any of the 114
missing files could be located. This did not uncover any of the 114 missing files,
though one was found prior to this exercise. As part of their Review, Wanless and
Whittam interrogated what was known about each of the 114 files. They published their
analysis within their final report, published November 2014.</p>
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