"The Home Office gave nearly £500,000 to groups linked to campaigners for sex with children."
"A Whitehall inquiry found ‘clear evidence’ that £476,250 was granted over a decade to two organisations connected to the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange."
"The findings were released yesterday as Home Secretary Theresa May announced a major inquiry into how public bodies dealt with historical allegations of child sex abuse."
"As the paedophile scandal continued to engulf Westminster, it also emerged that: "
Prosecutors decided in 1998 not to lay child abuse charges against Liberal MP Cyril Smith despite ruling they were likely to succeed;
A former head of PIE hid documents inside the Home Office, where he was cleared to work as a contractor;
A member of the Heath government suggested he could secure the loyalty of MPs by covering up scandals involving them and ‘small boys’;
An unnamed minister in Tony Blair’s government was alleged to have tried to help a convicted paedophile foster two boys;
Former home secretary Lord Brittan insisted allegations that he failed to deal properly with allegations of child abuse were completely without foundation;
One of the first MPs to call for an overarching inquiry, Lib Dem Tessa Munt, revealed she was a victim of child abuse.
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