Fabian Hamilton then asked a question of the House on my behalf.

Extract from Hansard - Jimmy Savile (NHS Investigations)

26 February 2015 - 11:29:00

Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East) (Lab)

I was Savile’s Member of Parliament and, as the Secretary of State can imagine, Leeds North East has its fair share of his victims. One such victim approached me recently in great distress. He had been abused as a child by Savile and had given his story to the police after decades, but it was not a complete story. When he was subsequently interviewed by NHS staff, they did not believe his story because it was inconsistent, owing to the fear that he had felt over the decades following the abuse. Will the Secretary of State reassure my constituent and the many others like him that they will not become victims twice?

Mr Hunt

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and I have great sympathy for his constituent. The information was not collated centrally. There were a number of reports about which we might have been sceptical if we had read them in isolation, but when we read them together with other reports, we see a pattern and we can conclude, as the investigation has done, that those incidents did indeed take place. That is one of the big learning points: we have to collate information that different victims provide at different times, to ensure that proper judgments can be made and that action can be taken.

Mr Jeremy Hunt, now stating that the investigation was flawed to the house, gave me hope that now the full facts were known, and that the investigation was now ready to reconsider victims who’s testimony had been read in isolation.