Speeches by Moore.

“Can I just expand on another point about statutory inquiries in the answer you gave to Bell? It is about the way in which the questioning and environment that was created to be able to question and allow those victims, the survivors who had gone through the most horrific of circumstances, to come forward and share thei…”

“Do you have the flexibility to change the way in which the questioning takes place, even if you are given statutory powers?”

“Can I just expand a little as well, just on the framework, because I will absolutely keep plugging away for the Bradford district—”

“No, I am not saying that at all; that is absolutely what I will do. It has been reported that there are approximately 50 or so other towns that are experiencing a concern of gang rape and child sexual exploitation. The most horrific number of crimes have been taking place. There will be some advocates for those areas w…”

“Just continuing that line of thought, you have referenced the local campaigning that I have been doing to have an inquiry within Keighley and across the wider Bradford district. Should the Bradford district be one of those five that the Home Secretary announces before Easter?”

“Again, if I may continue, Chair, just take my example. I have been advocating for an inquiry to take place across the Bradford district, as indeed had Ann Cryer, a predecessor of mine.”

“Absolutely. She was a predecessor of mine representing Keighley. To show the stark reality that we face across the Bradford district, let me just take you through a timeline of events. In July 2021, Bradford safeguarding partnership rejects a full inquiry, arguing that the limited review that they carried out based on …”

“But it approved it in the end.”

“You mentioned that when you did the Telford inquiry, the survivors or the representatives and those who helped with feeding into the inquiry were advocating for those statutory powers to be awarded throughout—even up until the point of the report concluding, I think you mentioned.”

“Who knows, whether or not the award of statutory powers makes a difference to your conclusion, because they were not awarded, but the point here is the disenfranchisement of trust by victims and survivors in how open and transparent the inquiry is and how organisations or individuals are held to account as a result of …”

“Finally for me, going back to the Bradford district, where concerns have been raised absolutely consistently but—dare I say—ignored or even considered to be not too much of an issue by those in power at a local level, we end up in a scenario where there is an unwillingness for a local inquiry to take place. If we conti…”

“I will continue campaigning.”

“Can I just take you back to the timeline that you kindly went through? Thank you for your ability to keep going back to try to get answers and some clarity from the Home Office. It seems to me that the Home Secretary was almost pushed into a position of making some announcements in January to illustrate that the Govern…”

“Up until today’s point, then, given that your name has been referenced not only on the floor of the House but in other communication that has been put out by the Government, do you feel used as part of this process so far?”

“Do you have faith that there will be a local audit or inquiry into the other four areas where it has been indicated there will be?”

“Based on the process since January when that statement was given in the House, do you have confidence that the other inquiries will actually come into existence?”

“That is absolutely the point: it causes huge concern to many farming businesses because they are not able to forecast what financial investment will go into the business, whether from delinked payments or any sustainable farming incentive scheme that they were hoping to enter.”

“The reality is that we cannot, because of the Government’s announcement of dramatic reductions to the delinked payments that many farming businesses relied on. The explanatory note itself states that the reductions for 2025 will result in “increased demand from farmers for the Environmental Land Management schemes”, bu…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. That is why an impact assessment is so important if we are to consider this piece of legislation. Not only are farmers facing the collective economic impact of a dramatic reduction in delinked payments, but they are now faced with being unable to receive sustainable farming …”

“Okay, thank you, Mr Twigg. As the Committee debates this delegated legislation, I would like to take us back to why we are where we are, in the sense of being in year 5 of a seven-year transition period. This direction was positively set out by the previous Administration as we moved from the common agricultural policy…”