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HANSARD Child Rape GangsWhat we have proposed is better because it is about acting now in areas where it is needed. We have already had a national inquiry, which took seven years and wrote a 200-page…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsThe shadow Home Secretary was away when I updated the House on the Government’s response to the independent national inquiry into child sexual abuse, and on the action that we are…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsI do not agree with that. Politically, the easiest thing for me to have done in this situation would have been to capitulate, but I do not think it is the right thing to do. I…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsI thank the shadow Home Secretary. I do not need to read out the things found in other local inquiries to know, because I speak to the victims. I spoke to some of the victims of…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsI thank my hon. Friend for mentioning boys and giving me the opportunity to say the following. I made a promise to one of the Oldham victims when I met her that I would always say…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsThe grooming gangs taskforce will work with local police force areas. The whole point is that it works operationally with local police forces to ensure best practice. That has led…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsI absolutely agree that action is what is needed, which is exactly why the Home Secretary has written to all police forces in England and Wales seeking to ensure that more arrests…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsI want to be clear that local inquiries must be independent. The chair of Telford inquiry was independent, and Professor Alexis Jay chaired the Rotherham inquiry. They are…28 Apr 2025HANSARD Child Rape GangsGroup-based grooming, which includes some terrible examples of British children being groomed from abroad and vice versa, is something that we are acutely aware of. Whether it…28 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)The Disclosure and Barring Service issues criminal record checks in England and Wales to support employers to make decisions about the suitability of individuals for particular…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)As I was saying before we were so democratically interrupted, amendment 50 seeks to place a duty on the police to notify victims when an offender intends to change their name.…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Roger, while we expect a vote. As we are quorate, I will move on with this task. I will come on to answer the questions put by…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)I have realised that I did not answer one question after the Divisions. The hon. Member for Stockton West asked about the justification for the regulation-making power in clause…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)Registered sex offenders who receive a sentence of imprisonment of 30 months or more must comply with the notification requirements indefinitely after 15 years, or eight for…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)It is absolutely fine, Sir Roger. Clauses 63 provides the police with the power to receive virtual notifications from registered sex offenders in specified circumstances. It was a…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)The aim of clause 67 is to improve the process by which the police obtain warrants to enter and search registered sex offenders’ homes to assess their risk of sexual harm.…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)I have met victims of childhood sexual abuse, for example, who have suffered trauma years and years into the future. I have to say that, in recent years, that has been very badly…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for his questions. These amendments to the law were very much in the predecessor Bill to this one; I think I am the only person who has now sat through…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)I will start at the end and work backwards through the questions. It was a delight to hear everybody mention the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, which is an amazing organisation that I have…24 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Tenth sitting)Absolutely. The Metropolitan police’s decision to use those three particular boroughs for the domestic abuse protection orders was undoubtedly based on intelligence, and also on…24 Apr 2025