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HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryTo go back to the previous answer, the chair of the inquiry will set the tone for the inquiry. That is why we have to put in place the right chair and a system for victims who…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryAs stated in my previous statement to the House on 2 September and in my letter to the Home Affairs Committee yesterday, the Government remain resolute in delivering Baroness…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryMy hon. Friend, who I know has some experience of inquiries from her previous life, is exactly right. People do not remember it now, but there were victims going out in the press…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryI will chair an interministerial cross-Government group next week to push through the other recommendations. Baroness Casey made 12 recommendations, but people rarely speak about…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryI really hope so, but I am not going to do what other people seem to want to do in this circumstance and pretend that there is a guarantee and that I have some sort of magic…21 Oct 2025HANSARD Rape Gangs: National Statutory InquiryFirst, while the inquiry is in England and Wales, one of the victims who we have been hearing about today—Ellie—lives very much in the borderland of our two great countries of…21 Oct 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI do not have in front of me the exact data that my hon. Friend has requested—I am not entirely sure that exact data exists—but what I can say, based on decades of experience, is…03 Sept 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; a strategy on violence against women and girls that did not include the online elements that she highlights, as well as others, would not be…03 Sept 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI am sure that the whole House has sympathy for the case that the hon. Gentleman has outlined. I understand that the inquest is ongoing, but to answer the substantive point of his…03 Sept 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsWe are committed to halving violence against women and girls within the next decade. We are working tirelessly to deliver that ambitious plan to tackle these heinous acts through…03 Sept 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI absolutely make that commitment here today. Throughout the progress of any such sentencing changes, the Home Office, the Minister with responsibility for victims and I have been…03 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseOften in this debate, we discuss how people felt nervous or anxious about ethnicity, when what is also evident in every single case—regardless of the ethnicity of the…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseOn the contrary: very few people have written to me more throughout this process than the leader of Telford council, who has talked about how they want to continue to make…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseYes. My hon. Friend makes an important point that we have to make sure that the inquiry is not used for further state inactivity. There have been cases where that has happened…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThere has been some reporting that the violence against women and girls strategy will not include child abuse victims and grooming gang victims. I can stand here and say that is…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI am not sure the right hon. Lady wants to hear my hopes about the next general election. As I said earlier, the victims of this crime have sat in front of me with tears in their…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, because Baroness Casey pointed out how many of her recommendations hinge on there being a good child protection authority, and that work is…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseSouth Yorkshire police should never have been left to investigate themselves in this matter, and moving those investigations to the NCA is absolutely the right thing to do. I…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI praise the hon. Gentleman for saying that, because familial abuse and child exploitation not by groups but by families or peer groups are, I am afraid to say, not uncommon. I…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy hon. Friend is right. As I said earlier, there is likely to be border-crossing between Birmingham and Telford, which was mentioned in the earlier inquiry. We continue to…02 Sept 2025