'I did order an investigation into Westminster paedophile dossier'

Mr Danczuk appeared before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee after accusing
the late Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith for Rochdale (pictured) of being a paedophile

Former Home Secretary Leon Brittan this morning said he asked officials to look carefully at a dossier handed to him in the 1980s allegedly containing claims of a Westminster paedophile network.

The Tory peer released a statement after he was challenged to make public what he knew about the file handed to him at the time by a fellow Conservative MP.

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale, told the Home Affairs Select Committee that Lord Brittan had been sent a dossier of allegations about paedophiles between 1983 and 1985 by Geoff Dickens MP.

Lord Brittan this morning said he had received the dossier during his time as Home Secretary. He said he had asked officials to look into the claims, but did 'not recall being contacted further about these matters'.  (more...)

'I did order an investigation into Westminster paedophile dossier'