Speeches by Moore.

“So has your position changed? That is all I want to know. Do you support a review?”

“Again, we had this point with Baroness Casey this morning: the response back from you and the leader of Bradford Council is that this is relying on serious case reviews. Baroness Casey has been critical of that, even in the recommendations that she has put forward to the Home Office. So I am afraid I do not accept the …”

“I am not sure why.”

“Yes or no would be really helpful.”

“Finally on this point: there has been so much pushback at a local level within the district by the leader of Bradford Council and, dare I say, by yourself and by the Mayor of West Yorkshire as recently as a couple of weeks ago, that there should be no focus on the Bradford district because there will be no new lessons …”

“Finally on ethnicity: do you believe that men of Pakistani heritage are overrepresented in cases of grooming in West Yorkshire? And if so, why?”

“It is frustrating that it has taken a national embarrassment to get you and the Mayor of West Yorkshire to change position on this. At a local level, given the level of concern that has consistently been raised about the Bradford district in particular, do you accept that there should be a spotlight on Bradford as part…”

“Thank you, Chair. To start, I am just going to focus on Baroness Casey’s report that came out this morning and we had her in front of us this morning. Alison, I will direct these questions to you, if that would be okay? Baroness Casey has now called for a national inquiry into grooming gangs: specifically one that inve…”

“The fact that victims and survivors of this horrific crime literally had to become campaigners themselves to reach this outcome should make everyone in the House stop and think. When I last met the Safeguarding Minister, the hon. Member for Birmingham Yardley (Jess Phillips), along with the leading child abuse lawyer D…”

“Across Keighley and Ilkley, there are many fantastic independent businesses that rely on footfall for customers to come through their doors. However, after hiking parking charges in Ilkley earlier this year, Labour-run Bradford council has now decided to strip away our free one hour on-street parking from the town cent…”

“But the Government are going way beyond that and giving more powers to local authorities and, indeed, Natural England. If the Minister has gone out and spoken to anyone in the agricultural world, he will realise that trust in Natural England is shot, yet the Government are giving it more powers to compulsorily acquire …”

“That is exactly why I urge the Government, as I have throughout the passage of the Bill—I know this point was also raised in Committee—to realise the huge level of disenfranchisement it represents for landowners. This Bill is not introducing fairness into the system, because it does not enable the state to pay the mark…”

“Here we have the Liberal Democrats setting out their position, and it is a good that they are doing so because I fundamentally believe that if a farmer owns land and the state seizes control of it through compulsory purchase powers, it is absolutely right that that farmer should be rewarded with the market value, not t…”

“The farming community faces so much uncertainty not only as a result of the Bill, but because of all the additional pressures, whether it is the family farm tax or the increases in overheads, that are hitting cash flow this year. That is why my new clause 127 and amendment 153 —and, indeed, Opposition new clause 42—are…”

“To bring the hon. Member back to the compulsory purchase measures in part 5 of the Bill, which we are discussing today, many residents along the A1 corridor have been severely impacted by the Government’s decision not to continue the development of the A1. Will he consider supporting our new clause 42, which would incr…”

“My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech about choices, but this is also about fairness. The compulsory purchase powers contained in part 5 of the Bill disregard any hope value over and above agricultural value, which is not fair at all for those landowners who are having their land compulsorily acquired. If my hon…”

“I rise to speak about new clause 127 and amendment 153, both of which are in my name. Compulsory purchase is a highly emotive and highly controversial subject. Indeed, much of yesterday’s debate was taken up by discussion of precisely the new CPO powers that the Bill will grant to Natural England and local authorities.…”

“That is exactly why I am so frustrated by the intent of the Government’s Bill. It gives Natural England more compulsory purchase powers, more funds through environmental delivery plans, and an ability to scrutinise and, indeed, to dictate to landowners how their land or farm may be utilised. That is wrong, especially w…”

“Today’s U-turn is an astonishing victory against the Government, whose support has dried up after less than a year in office. When the Government announced their cruel cut to the winter fuel payment, costing 64,000 Bradford district pensioners vital support, experts across the country warned that up to 4,000 lives coul…”

“I completely acknowledge and thank you for that response. I will look at the report when it gets released, but the reality is that it is not looking specifically at local authorities; it is focusing more on police forces. My point is that at Bradford council, we were given the reasoning by our leader that a report woul…”