Speeches by White.

“Do you feel that you have the right mix of experience to take on this huge task? Is there anything missing?”

“As the chair of the inquiry, what do you perceive to be your greatest challenge?”

“The most controversial and sensitive issues are those relating to ethnicity, culture and religion in terms of both the perpetrators and the victims. There is also the absence of data. How do you think you will be tackling those issues? That is what a lot of people will be focusing on.”

“Thank you so much for coming to see us today. I am going to ask a question about the very beginning of the process. At the time, there was a lot of controversy, particularly with the survivors, about who should chair and run the panel. Two people had been appointed and then they resigned. So how did you come forward? D…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for bringing this debate to the House. It is not just Doncaster that is impacted by this issue, because Doncaster and Bassetlaw teaching hospitals NHS foundation trust stretches right across Bassetlaw. I have had similar experiences with my constituents; in fact, every time I have a meeting or a …”

“I am concerned about the link between loss of hearing and dementia. If somebody who is experiencing hearing loss goes down that horrible path of dementia and loss of memory, the lack of communication can spiral and make their condition explode. It becomes much more life-changing, much more quickly. Access to audiology …”

“I want to think about the thousands of young women and girls and the confidence that they need to have to give evidence to the inquiry. With the institutionalised nature of this, the turning of a blind eye by all elements of the state, how can they have the confidence that they will be believed and trusted when they co…”

“Thank you and welcome to our Committee. What lessons have been learned from previous Home Office violence against women strategies?”

“What challenges have changed since the publication of the last strategy?”

“There has been an evaluation of how the previous strategies have been successful or not successful. How has that impacted the development of the current strategy?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Daniel Francis) for securing this very important parliamentary debate. NHS wheelchair services across England and Wales face serious challenges, affecting hundreds of thousands of disabled…”

“If somebody spots something on the ground, is there a mechanism by which you can then feed it up through regional level policing to the NCA?”

“Like most small towns, we have seen a growth in vape shops, barber shops, and so on. How much does the NCA regard organised crime to be a city-based activity or something that is now percolating into the small towns of the north, for example?”

“I totally understand your philosophy of threat, risk, harm and how you analyse where your actions and focus should be. Obviously, it is focused on where there is violence, where there is violence against women and girls or where somebody is at risk of serious harm. Does that mean there is a deprioritisation of investig…”

“The police are under a great deal of pressure about what their priorities should be, and tackling knife crime and violence against women and girls are way up there. How much priority do you think they should be giving to counterfeit crime?”

“How would the police respond locally? OPAL sounds very good, but I have not seen that rolled out in my area. How would a police officer respond in my area?”

“I don’t understand what you mean about you don’t dare to share. Can you explain that point?”

“A local businessman in my constituency is quite good at looking at who owns property and has been using his detective skills on property ownership. He has suggested to me that there is a link between cash-intensive businesses involved in money laundering and Chinese underground banking. Would you agree with that analys…”

“Yes, I totally understand what you are saying. Obviously, you rolled out the November exercise across the country. Is that something—perhaps you cannot say—that you intend to repeat, or is it a model that you would like to institute across the whole of the country?”

“What are the lessons from Operation Mechanize?”