It is also a year ago this week that the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis broke across the nation, and in two or three weeks time we shall obtain from Lord Justice Butler-Sloss a report which, I am sure, is awaited with great interest by hon. Members on both sides of the House and by the public.

I am talking, of course, of the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis, as it was called at first.

This is the first occasion that the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis has been brought to the Floor of the House other than through parliamentary statements and questions.

What was clear in the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis was the distance between the consultants who were employed by the region and the district authority.

All the major participants in the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis are no longer in their jobs.

It also had the impetus of the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis.

Those of us who followed the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis, such as the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin), were always struck by the way in which it brought about new events and new circumstances beyond anyone's imagination.

Is not it a fact that the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis is at an end?

At the height of the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis, the right hon. Lady agreed with the then Minister for Health that there should be a judicial inquiry.

The last time that a judicial inquiry was held - the full judicial review by Lady Butler-Sloss of the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis - was under the previous Government, when the then Department of Health and Social Security leaked the entire summary of conclusions to the Press Association.

During the Cleveland Child Abuse Crisis some 20 years ago, certain newspapers decided, for the sake of it, to mount personal attacks on me.