Speeches by Moore.

“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 …”

“Yes or no would be really helpful.”

“I am not sure why.”

“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 …”

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

“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.”

“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…”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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…”

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

“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?”

“When was the last meeting you had?”

“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.”

“Can I just ask what conversations you have had with the Secretary of State for Education on the IICSA recommendations?”

“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…”