Member

In another department where I was the Minister, I discovered that something similar had been happening. It had been going on for some time, and the whistle had been blown 12 months before, but nothing was done. That is unacceptable. The assumption that all the Civil Service leadership, and probably Ministers as well, of every department and agency will be so concerned to wash their dirty linen in public that they will invite the Cabinet Office in seems quite unrealistic. This amendment, which would remove the need for the Cabinet Office to be invited in to investigate wrongdoing, is essential.