Speeches by Moore.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I thank the hon. Member for Newport West and Islwyn (Ruth Jones) for securing today’s debate. She has been a tireless campaigner on this issue in her role as a shadow Minister before the general election, in tabling a private Member’s Bill and securing many…”

“We are now in March 2026. Why has the consultation not been rolled out yet?”

“How has the consultation changed, if at all, following the decisions that have now been reversed, pulled back or changed since the original announcement?”

“How have the Government used their time since the original consultation was announced to make sure that what does get announced has the right questions in it, and will draw the right level of information, advice and experience from users, as well as those with technical experience?”

“Do we have a date yet for when the consultation will go live?”

“In 2014, a man in my constituency was ambushed, violently beaten with a pickaxe handle and left lying in the street with serious injuries. At the time of the conviction, the judge called it a “brutal attack”. Many constituents have contacted me to express their concern that the perpetrator of this attack is still a sit…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Barker. I thank the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) for introducing this important debate on behalf of the Petitions Committee. More than 121,000 people have signed the petition, and I believe it has been signed more quickly than any petition the C…”

“The hon. Member is making some important points, but did he note that the Law Commission, in its 2015 report on firearms, did not recommend moving section 2 licences into the section 1 system? He references the points made to do with previous incidents, but the Law Commission was very clear in its 2015 recommendations …”

“I am interested to understand why this consultation is before the public. It goes against the grain of the Law Commission’s 2015 report and the coroner’s report, which contained no such recommendation. Would the Minister also mind answering my question on fireworks? Fireworks are licensed, too, so why are the Governmen…”

“Farming cashflows are under pressure, and farming businesses need clarity, certainty and clear policy direction from this Government now more than ever. However, with partial U-turns, continuous consultations, new taskforces, road maps, frameworks, reviews and now—finally—an announcement that the renewed sustainable fa…”

“Home Secretary, I want to push you on the figures, because the Home Office had savings on asylum accommodation of £0.9 billion in one financial year, 2024-25, but it is anticipated to be £1.1 billion over a three-year period. That seems not ambitious enough, given the savings that have already been made. You say you ar…”

“On the move to larger-scale sites, the Committee went to Wethersfield to have a look around the site and so on. One of the big issues, particularly for me, was the way in which the interview process was taking place offsite and only moved to taking place onsite very slowly. Can we have your reassurance that we are not …”

“Well, it’s not been issued to West Yorkshire police and the Bradford safeguarding partnership.”

“Baroness Casey’s audit was very detailed and thorough, and on page 151 it specifically said that while the national inquiry is being set up “police forces and other relevant agencies should in the meantime be required not to destroy any relevant records” relating to grooming gangs. I have done a freedom of information …”

“Home Secretary, I put it to you that it feels like it is just not working. We as a Committee went over to France. We went to Dunkirk. We went with our French counterparts as a Select Committee as well. It did not seem to me that there was any political will on the French side for this arrangement to work. It was even r…”

“Yes, and therefore still reiterated to us. I just want to understand value for money. Already £476 million has been given to the French over a set period—much more recently with the one in, one out deal. When will we start to really understand value for money for taxpayers here in the UK, with our arrangement with Fran…”

“I want to understand why we are now well over a year since the previous Home Secretary made the initial announcement that we are going to have five local inquiries. The Home Secretary at the time was confident enough to reference Oldham at that point. We are now well over a year on, and Baroness Longfield has been appo…”

“Would you recommend that particular transitional protections are specifically looked at?”

“Anna, do you have anything additional to add over and above that?”