Speeches by Moore.

“When was the last meeting you had?”

“Any organisation that effectively has safeguarding responsibility, including the CPS. So how do you envisage the terms of reference being established, and how do you envisage getting cross-Government buy-in? Yes, it was the Home Secretary who made the announcement, but actually this cuts across every Government Departm…”

“Thank you. Openness, transparency, and accountability are incredibly important; that is absolutely noted. This brings me on to my next question, which has to do with the terms of reference potentially associated with the national inquiry. I know that West Yorkshire Police fed into your report and helped with, I suspect…”

“I really appreciate your response. The excuses at a local level were first about it being too expensive and therefore not warranted. Then it turned into the idea that we would learn nothing new. An element of communication is coming out from Bradford Council, and, dare I say it, our West Yorkshire Mayor as well, and ve…”

“Baroness Casey, let me say a huge thank you to you and your whole team for the amount of work that you have put in to producing these recommendations. It is hugely appreciated. I want to focus my questions on the national inquiry, and local inquiries as well. I refer to page 137 of your report, in which you make refere…”

“And for you as the—”

“Yes, which is what I have just said. So my question is just how much dialogue is the Home Office having with the—”

“The reason I ask is I did a written question to the Home Office asking when the recommendation for a Cabinet Minister for children was going to be implemented, and the response that I had was, “Oh, well, that’s the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Education.””

“When was the last conversation you had with the Secretary of State for Education with IICSA? You personally as a safeguarding Minister.”

“Power for court to intervene in councils to exercise parental responsibility. My understanding is that there has been no indication on timings associated with that. The point I am making is there are about 14 of the recommendations that we do not have a proper understanding of timeframe yet.”

“I will mention City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council again, and I know that you were kind enough to meet with me and indeed David Greenwood who I brought along to the meeting as an expert and child abuse lawyer. That is an area where there has been an element of concern that has been consistently raised and yo…”

“Just following on the session that we had earlier on, which I know you were kindly listening into—”

“Can you just provide any indication—if you are aware at the moment—on whether the structure following the announcement of the national inquiry is going to focus on more areas beyond the five that have already been indicated?”

“Are you able to give any better indication on timeframe? I am just conscious we are almost a year in.”

“I would like to just take my focus on to some responses to Baroness Casey, if that is all right, Minister, and just on the IICSA recommendations as well, while we have you in front of us. Are you able to provide an update on the recommendations from the IICSA report in terms of the timeframe when they are going to be i…”

“I will pick a random one. I will pick power for a court to intervene in a council exercise of parental responsibility. My understanding is there has been no indication set out by Government on that, or indeed about 14 of the 20 yet.”

“Just for example, a public awareness campaign, as far as I am aware, there are no plans yet. Power for courts to intervene in council exercise of parental responsibility, no plans yet.”

“Just to follow on this line of questioning, in terms of the base level of metrics, you said that they are going to roll out when the reports and recommendations come out in summer. At the moment, do you feel that all organisations and police forces where those metrics are feeding in have a good enough understanding of …”

“Just quickly on the timeframe, so the ambition is to get that reduction of 50% put in place over a 10-year period. You have recognised that obviously there will be increased reporting. Within that 10-year period, at what point do you feel that you will then start to see the reduction coming in? Are you talking two or t…”

“Thank you Chair, that is all I wanted to ask. It is just frustrating for all the Committee to see that we have the deputy mayor of policing in front of us who is not getting behind calls for an inquiry at a national level.”