Dr Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason Police in Surrey, investigating the impregnation of a mentally-ill woman by an employee of a care unit to which she had been admitted, under section, claim that the matter is still under investigation more than two years later, when the (a) facts are not in dispute and (b) child faces permanent relocation to Ghana to live with the parents of the father; and if she will take steps to ensure that it is established whether or not the potential offence meets the criteria for a reasonable prospect of conviction.  [115830]

[Due for Answer on 4 February]

ANSWER 

The Minister of State for Crime and Policing (Kit Malthouse): The Minister cannot comment on ongoing Police investigations but will make a request that the Chief Constable of Surrey Police contacts you to provide an appropriate answer.