Speeches by Moore.

“Having sat in the House of Lords, I am sure you will know that. The point is that we also need to scrutinise the process. Would it not be a good thing to have announced that? If the local authority today turned around and said, as I have been asking Bradford to do for a long time, “We now demand that we have that inqui…”

“Last week, I met Alice Jones, the headteacher of Oxenhope primary school, to talk about the funding challenges it is facing in supporting children with SEND and her deep concerns about this Government’s planned SEND reforms, which include shifting ECHPs to individual support plans, therefore limiting protection for ECH…”

“4. What steps the Government are taking to support children with SEND at school.”

“In addition, what the Government are doing to help those against whom a false claim has been made? In my constituency, a false claim was made against the mother of a daughter who had come over from Pakistan. The mother was a teacher at one of my schools, who then lost her job because of the false claim and accusation o…”

“I would like to move on to the rape gangs and child sexual exploitation. Do you agree with all the recommendations in Baroness Casey’s report, which was published in June?”

“The scale is obviously increasing, given the 5,596 I referenced earlier. According to the BBC, 1,424 of those were cases raised by men, a rise of 66%.”

“Applications by women rose 47% in the same two-year period. It is definitely an increasing trend. In addition to raising the evidential bar, what is the Home Office doing about it?”

“One of the key recommendations—it will hopefully come as no surprise that I reference it—is the one on data collection, specifically the requirement on pages 151 and 152 of Baroness Casey’s report that all data must be retained by all organisations: police forces, local authorities and any organisation with a safeguard…”

“Minister, staying with the VAWG strategy, concerns have been raised over the lack of focus on migrant and asylum-seeking women in the strategy. What assessment have you made of the impact of the changes to the immigration rules on migrant and asylum-seeking women at risk of VAWG?”

“Baroness Casey’s recommendations specifically say, “Local authorities, police forces and other relevant agencies should in the meantime”—between June, when the report came out from Baroness Casey and the point at which the national inquiry was set up—“be required not to destroy any relevant records.””

“On funding, £65 million has been allocated to it. There is a narrative of more than 50 towns that could warrant having an inquiry. I have mentioned Bradford and you have referenced Birmingham, so £65 million does not seem like a lot of money. For the 50 towns that have been referenced, that is £1.3 million for each tow…”

“That was six months after the publication of the Casey review. That was the first time that it came from the Home Office. It was a further eight months before MHCLG wrote to local authorities with that level of instruction. Given that trust is a key issue here, as you have rightly identified, would the Government not h…”

“I come back to the point that it was a recommendation within Baroness Casey’s report, and there is real concern that it might be happening, in correspondence I receive from constituents. Given that it was raised in the report, I simply wanted to get to the bottom of that.”

“Concerns have been raised—I have raised them to do with my own constituents in Keighley, and it may be similar in your own constituency; the BBC has also been reporting on this—about false claims by migrants purporting to be victims of domestic abuse to remain in this country. The numbers are quite staggering. Accordin…”

“Baroness Casey felt strongly enough to write that as a recommendation for a direction to be issued. Why was no direction issued by Government?”

“On the local areas to be included in the inquiry, the Government were confident enough to announce that Oldham would be included as far back as January 2025, when the previous Home Secretary said it would be included in local inquiries. I am curious as to why Bradford has not been announced so far. Given that it was re…”

“I have a final question to do with the positioning of the whole of the Government on this issue. Given that it is the biggest national scandal that has hit this country for a long time, did the Government ever consider repositioning this from being controlled effectively by the Home Office to the Cabinet Office? The re…”

“It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Mrs Harris. We on this side of the House recognise the challenging situation that offshore wind developers face and the need to simplify the process to make schemes deliverable. Equally, we recognise the environmental issues. As we have heard, the regulations seek to shi…”

“The Minister is being incredibly kind in giving way, but to push her on that point: has the guidance been stress-tested on the fishermen to date? The Minister said she will work with them. Have the fishermen been involved yet?”

“I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. It appears that the Scottish Government are not only ignoring the challenges associated with spatial squeeze—”