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David Cameron: Director of Public Prosecutions will review decision not to prosecute Jimmy Savile
The director of public prosecutions is to review decisions by the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute Jimmy Savile in 2009.
The CPS had looked at four sexual abuse claims against the late TV presenter and DJ, all dating back to the 70s.
Announcing the review to MPs, Prime Minister David Cameron said "the allegations and what seems to have happened are completely appalling".
Savile is believed to have carried out a 40-year campaign of sexual abuse.
In response to the first question at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron said: "These allegations do leave many institutions, perhaps particularly the BBC, with serious questions to answer - I think, above all, how did he get away with this for so long?"
The review of the 2009 case will be carried out by the DPP's principal legal adviser, Alison Levitt QC.
In addition, Mr Cameron said: "The director of public prosecutions specifically is going to consider what more can be done to alert relevant authorities where there are concerns, but a prosecution is not taken forward."
He added: "Government will do everything it can do, other institutions must do what they can do to make sure we learn the lessons of this and it can never happen again."
The Metropolitan Police has launched a criminal investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Savile. The force says it is following up hundreds of lines of inquiry, with more than 200 potential victims having been identified.
A file covering four possible cases of abuse was submitted in 2009 by Surrey Police, but charges were not brought, the CPS says, because the alleged victims' unwillingness to support a prosecution made a conviction unlikely.
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