35m Child Abuse Inquiry Is Yet to Publish Report

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
June 28, 2017

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/35m-sex-inquiry-is-yet-to-publish-report-gz99295fm

Dame Lowell Goddard cost the inquiry ?41,750 in travel, including for flights home with her family

The public inquiry into child abuse has spent ?35 million in two years without producing a single report.

Figures published yesterday by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) show expenditure of ?20.8 million in 2016-17 including more than ?9 million on staff and ?5.1 million on lawyers.

Salary costs include ?165,000 in pay and allowances to the New Zealander Dame Lowell Goddard from April 1 last year until her abrupt resignation as chairwoman on August 4.

Dame Lowell, who has denied allegations of misconduct during her period in office, also cost the inquiry ?41,750 in travel, including for flights home with her family. Her successor, Alexis Jay, received ?148,000 in salary, allowances and expenses from August until March.

The expenditure will anger abuse…