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HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI know work is being done. I think there was a report five years ago and there are separate, ongoing reports in Scotland, with many cross-cutting themes. The hon. Gentleman…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportMy right hon. Friend has occupied my post and is very knowledgeable about this subject. There are concerns about the DBS, and I asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportThe right hon. Lady has expertise in this area, so I thank her for her point. As I said, I want to act as quickly as possible. She will appreciate that this report was seven years…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportThe hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point. One problem with tackling child sexual abuse is that it can happen in so many different settings and environments that it is difficult…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportFirst, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for her work in 2017—these cannot have been easy pieces of legal work to do. She is right to say that it is never the fault of the victims…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI thank the right hon. Lady for her response to my statement. I repeat the message in the statement that I want to work across parties to do all we can to protect victims and,…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. This morning, I was at Hertfordshire Constabulary, looking at the impressive database it has for when people are booked into custody…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI pay tribute to the hon. Lady for calling out what has happened in Lambeth and elsewhere; I have nothing to add to her words where that is concerned. A number of hon. Members…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. Last Thursday, the inquiry’s report was published.…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportAbsolutely, I will undertake to do that as a matter of priority. The National Crime Agency, GCHQ and a whole network of undercover officers and others work constantly on tackling…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI am not sure that question was put quite in the spirit of the cross-party way that we are trying to approach this issue. I set out in quite some detail a number of things that…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportOne thing that has happened since the Savile case and the publicity that my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead brought to this issue by calling the inquiry in the first…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI thank my right hon. Friend for all that she did in setting up the inquiry. This has involved seven years, 725 witnesses, 20 reports across 15 investigations, 24 research reports…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportMy hon. Friend may not remember this, but we first met when he was shadow Children’s Minister, and I and the whole House know of his extraordinary work campaigning on these issues…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI pay tribute to my hon. Friend. She mentioned some figures. The ones that really stuck out for me were that, in 2021 alone, global technology companies reported more than 29…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportThe hon. Lady is right, and this plays into the wider issues of gang traffickers as well, because they know that they can be in an exploitative situation and do exploit, in…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI can tell the hon. Lady that we are setting up a cross-Government group to specifically work on the issues that she has raised, and that will include my right hon. Friend the…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I think I am right in saying that it was Professor Jay who carried out the work on the report on Rotherham. She was very clear that things such…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the scale of the problem, which may surprise people who have not been involved in the subject before when they read the report. Some…24 Oct 2022HANSARD Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Final ReportI will certainly be working closely with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to make sure that happens. My hon. Friend is right about the scale of it, but…24 Oct 2022