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HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryLet me pay tribute to my hon. Friend and the work that he has done on taxi regulation. I will happily ensure that we keep discussing with him the measures that we are bringing…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryFirst, the Minister for Safeguarding will happily talk to anyone, anywhere and under any auspices about the need for justice for victims and survivors of these heinous crimes. Let…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryLet me give her that reassurance, and I hope that the progress the Government are making on implementing previous recommendations gives her and others some more of that…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryLet me immediately right the wrong of Ann not having the recognition that she deserves and pay fulsome tribute to the work that she did in exposing not just the crimes themselves…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryLet me say yes to my hon. Friend on both those counts and give him the reassurance that he has sought. It is the case that as new information or evidence comes to light, the…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryLet me say to him first that no local authority, whichever one it is, will be able to resist a local investigation if that is what the chair and the panellists wish to occur. Once…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryI hear the force with which the point is made. I have a lot of sympathy with what the hon. Member and my colleagues from Scotland have said on how grooming gangs do not respect…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryIt is an independent inquiry, so there should be, and will be, some necessary limits on my engagement with the chair and the panel. As it is an independent inquiry, they will go…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryLet me provide the hon. Member with reassurance. First, Operation Beaconport is up and running, and that involves the National Crime Agency’s work to take a fresh look at what…09 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryThere is only one statutory inquiry, and that is the one that this Government have initiated, the chair and panel of which I have announced today. If the hon. Member has collected…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayThe powers to revoke indefinite leave to remain are not going to change as a result of this. The hon. Member will know that the specific provisions for foreign national offenders…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayNone of the rules about marriage in-country, as it were, are going to change, but if my hon. Friend wants to send me some of her constituency examples, I would be very happy to…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayNothing I have said today changes the position of those who have come to this country on the Ukrainian scheme. That is a bespoke scheme for the people who have arrived here from…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayReally, Madam Deputy Speaker! The hon. Gentleman will know that immigration is a reserved matter. That will not change. The thing that is holding back the labour market in…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayI have acknowledged that the way the system is working—or, more appropriately, not working—is causing deep unease across the country, including in my constituency and among people…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayWe will always have specific obligations on not returning anybody who has arrived in this country seeking asylum or who has been granted refugee status. We would not return those…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayI hope my hon. Friend will reflect on how I opened my statement today and how I closed it. I see the benefits of migration. I would not be here if this country had not welcomed my…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: this is an open, tolerant and generous country. What I have acknowledged in the reforms I have set out, both today and on Monday, is that there…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayThe hon. Gentleman and I have an obvious point of difference on the European convention on human rights. This Government will not be leaving that European convention. We do not…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Migration: Settlement PathwayThese will be matters for the consultation and I encourage the hon. Lady to engage with it. We have put in an element around public service, because we recognise the specific…20 Nov 2025