Speeches by Moore.

“Earlier this week, there was a large accidental industrial fire on Pitt Street, in Keighley in my constituency. Nine fire crews attended, some coming from as far away as Mirfield in West Yorkshire. Unfortunately, one person was taken to hospital, and there was a huge amount of damage done to local buildings. My thought…”

“Is it 100% confirmed that there is a defined definition of violence against women and girls?”

“Have you read Baroness Casey’s report that was published in June this year?”

“Has that definition been signed off by a Minister?”

“Has that been signed off by a Minister?”

“Can I be reassured that the panel and process is completely independent if those survivors, who were on the panel at the time, were asked whether or not the scope should be widened?”

“Sticking with the same theme, there are 20 IICSA recommendations and not one has been implemented to date. Act on IICSA, part of the organisation that supported Alexis Jay, has been clear in saying that. When we get to March next year, we will be the same amount of time into this new Government as the previous Conserva…”

“Action and delivery.”

“Not one recommendation has been put in place yet. I would suggest that simply saying that we are having meetings is not good enough, given that the IICSA report came out in 2022. Whether this lies with the civil service or Ministers, we need to see action in terms of those recommendations being put in place.”

“Specifically for this inquiry?”

“I will re-phrase the question then. Has this been designed by the civil service going up to a Minister regardless of where they sit in Government, or has this been a direction that has come from the top asking the civil service to look at how this policy could be implemented?”

“Data retention is incredibly important, as Baroness Casey indicated. We only need to look at historical failures previously and, as Baroness Casey said in her report, Rotherham council covered up the loss of up to 50% of children’s data after 21 laptops mysteriously vanished. On this point, if you have read the report …”

“In terms of the panel, it is clear that a number of survivors have walked away from the survivor liaison panel citing major concerns around the fear of the scope widening. The Government have denied that but evidence shows that survivors on the panel were explicitly asked the question: should the inquiry have an explic…”

“In terms of moving forward, I am also aware that those victims and survivors who removed themselves from the process have had little communication, if any, from the Home Office despite the Prime Minister saying that he was willing to keep a level of engagement continuing. I am sure you will agree that the amount of exp…”

“You cannot confirm how much funding?”

“If you could report back to the Committee, that would be much appreciated.”

“What staffing resource has been allocated so far to the set-up of the inquiry?”

“Has a staff member specifically been focused to work—”

“How many?”

“Finally, just to do with timings, the previous Home Secretary said from the Dispatch Box that there was going to be five local inquiries in January of this year. That never came to anything, other than a reference made to Rotherham. The previous Home Secretary followed up by stating there was going to be a national inq…”