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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

Charity watchdog launched legal action to stop MPs seeing sexual abuse report

An MP said Parliament needed to formally assert itself to stop it being strong-armed by arm’s-length government bodies (PA) - (PA Archive)

A watchdog took legal action to block MPs from seeing the findings of a report investigating sexual abuse complaints against two charities, MPs have been told.

The Charity Commission has blocked a parliamentary body, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), for five months from publishing conclusions of a report looking at how the watchdog investigated and responded to two separate sexual abuse complaints at charities.

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