Speeches by Murray.

“Thank you for those answers. We talked about how politics and political debate affects and drives antisemitism, and I would like to look at other drivers. Obviously, antisemitism can be found in all types of communities. As we have just explored, it is universal across ideology and place on the political spectrum. How …”

“I want to turn to another driver of antisemitism. What is your view on the influence of foreign states fomenting antisemitism in the UK?”

“Thank you for coming in, Minister and officials. You said at the beginning about how some of this is the responsibility of the Home Office but a lot of it is cross-Government and a lot of other Departments are key stakeholders in you achieving this. Can you tell me a bit more about how you monitor what other Government…”

“Do you have any idea when?”

“Can I ask a small follow-up on the centre? How does it work with devolved Administrations and what is the relationship like with other parts of the UK?”

“Thank you. That is very interesting. I suppose that was a good description of the process you follow. Now I want to ask for your analysis of how it is working. I am not asking you to tell tales on ministerial colleagues, but it is important for us as Parliament to understand what bits of the system are clunkier in this…”

“Obviously policing is devolved, as you understand, but it is not independent. There is a lot of really good learning that can be spread between Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. I would encourage that.”

“Thank you. I have two follow-up questions on specifics. We were just talking about system failure for victims, and how a trusted adult is an important mechanism. You have committed to a contract for child trafficking guardians. I have seen at first hand the massive impact that guardians can have. Is that contract out f…”

“That was going to be my next question. You have committed to rolling that out for a long time.”

“Thank you. I will just put on record a declaration that I am a trustee of the Human Trafficking Foundation.”

“What about the specific gaps in the current situation? You have alluded to the lack of knowledge about victims. We have talked about rape, but online abuse is also completely uncaptured, and under-16s are a massive gap. What are you doing to address those massive gaps in the system, and how are you balancing the parado…”

“The previous Home Secretary came before us over a year ago and said that the national referral mechanism, which is the way that we protect victims of trafficking in this country, had become a bit stuck. What have you been doing over the last year and a half to improve and reform the national referral mechanism?”

“Just to check that I understand what you are saying there, are you saying that the competing demands, especially around the online challenges that we face and the social media discussions that we have in Parliament all the time, are taking up a lot of bandwidth to prosecute through other parts of the VAWG strategy? Am …”

“I want to take us back to the metrics and how we are evaluating the strategy. You have talked about standardising definitions, the reliance on the crime survey and its usefulness and limitations, and some of the key indicators—sexual harassment, domestic abuse and homicides. What are you doing to improve, specifically,…”

“You say that the strategy has 250 interventions listed in it. I understand that the Cabinet Office and the Treasury have set up an evaluation taskforce to look at all 250 of these interventions, to see what works and what does not. How will you decide if something is not working and stop doing it? I am not talking only…”

“The goal is for that to be nationwide. This is about protecting child victims of trafficking. Why the delay and why are you not making it nationwide now?”

“Very quickly on that final point, obviously the NRM does not just look at women and does not just look at sexual exploitation; it looks at all kinds of exploitation. The Fair Work Agency is now operational but it is outside the Home Office’s control. What work are you doing to ensure the Fair Work Agency, which has a l…”

“I commend my hon. Friend for her work in this field. She, like me, is a serious animal lover who has always stood up for animals. Many constituents have contacted me about this debate; their primary reason for doing so is the unnecessary suffering caused to animals in testing, with force-feeding and injections right up…”

“Our energy security is so exposed to events in the middle east because we have relied on oil and gas for too long. Not only do fossil fuels cause climate change, but we buy them on the open market, so no further drilling in the North sea would help to mitigate prices. The only true path to energy security is through re…”

“9. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the middle east conflict on energy security.”