Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to plans to appoint a senior legal figure to review how a dossier alleging paedophile activity at Westminster in the 1980s was handled, said:

“The Government still aren’t doing enough. The Home Secretary doesn’t seem to have grasped the gravity of this and so officials and Downing Street have not yet taken the action we need.

"Mark Sedwell is right to seek an expert from the legal profession to lead the review into how the Home Office allowed a dossier alleging paedophile activity in Westminster to go missing. If the public are to have any confidence in the findings of the investigation it needs to be thorough and independent.

"However, this review alone is still not sufficient. The Home Secretary must now publish the review that was conducted in 2013.

"We also need to know whether the police have full information and whether they are pursuing all criminal lines of inquiry, however historic.

“And thirdly, given the many different inquiries, Theresa May must also establish an overarching review led by child protection experts. This would draw together the results from all the different cases, investigations and institutional inquiries to allow us to learn from the failure of previous decades and keep children safe in the future.

"Given the extent of concern about this, Theresa May should not simply be leaving it to officials and to the Prime Minister to resolve. She needs to make sure there is a process people can feel confident in - to get truth and justice, but also to protect children in future.”