David Cameron has warned accusations of child abuse could turn into a "witch hunt" of people who are gay after he was handed a list of suspects on live television.
The Prime Minister was given the list of suspected paedophiles by Phillip Schofield when he appeared on ITV's This Morning, where he was appearing to talk about dementia.
He did not look at the list and put it on the table, before raising concerns about internet speculation over who might be embroiled in historic cases.
"There is a danger if we are not careful that this can turn into a sort of witch hunt, particularly about people who are gay, and I'm worried about the sort of thing you are doing right now, taking a list of names off the internet," he told Schofield.
"If anyone has any information about anyone who's a paedophile, no matter how high up in society they are, that is what the police are for."
He added: "I've heard all sorts of names bandied around and what then tends to happen is everyone sits around and speculates about people, some of whom are alive, some of whom are dead."
Mr Cameron insisted the Government was moving quickly to investigate new claims, which include allegations that a senior Tory from the Thatcher era was involved in abuse in North Wales.
One of the alleged victims in that case, Steve Messham, has claimed he was regularly taken to a hotel and sold for sex - including to the politician.
The Prime Minister described the allegations as "extremely serious" and pointed out that the Government had this week launched an inquiry into the Welsh care home scandal.
There are now a series of different investigations into historic allegations, with two into the Welsh case and others sparked by the Jimmy Savile scandal.
The Prime Minister defended the move not to set up a single inquiry to look at all the claims, insisting this would not necessarily be quicker.
"The idea that if you had one mega-inquiry that you would speed everything up, I'm not sure is true," he said.
"I don't rule out taking further steps. I want the Government to be absolutely on top of this, I don't want anything to be covered up, I don't want any information to be held back. If there are more things we have to do, we will do them.
"But we always have to remember it's very easy for governments just to stand up and say, 'Here's a new inquiry.' What we've got to do is get to the truth as fast as we possibly can."
Foreign Secretary William Hague, who was Welsh Secretary at the time of the Waterhouse Inquiry into the care home allegations, has promised to leave "no stone unturned".
"I ordered an inquiry back in 1996 and I strongly support what the Home Secretary has announced this week. If there is anything more to look at, it must be looked at," he told ITV.
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