Speeches by Moore.

“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.”

“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…”