Speeches by Moore.

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank the hon. Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) for securing this important debate, in which we have heard incredibly powerful views from all hon. Members who have participated. Incineration is a strongly felt issue for many people across the country…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Lewell. I thank the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor) for securing this really important debate. It was good to listen to all the contributions. As we all know, water is vital and we use it every single day, so it is deeply concerning that we have such …”

“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…”

“Following the inquiry though, are you aware if anyone has been held to account?”

“It is good to see you; thank you for coming in. Just following on with Telford specifically before I go on to my next question, the Telford report contains some absolutely horrific findings. There were multi-agency failings from not only the police, but children’s services and those with safeguarding responsibilities a…”

“How do we fast-track this? This is a problem right now across the Bradford district that many of us have been calling out, and dare I say it, the scale of the issue across the Bradford district would dwarf anywhere else by far—I have not seen anything to disprove that. We are trapped between local representatives block…”

“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?”

“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?”

“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?”

“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…”

“I will continue campaigning.”

“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…”

“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 …”

“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.”

“But it approved it in the end.”

“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 …”

“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.”

“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?”

“I will continue that line of thinking, if that is okay. In terms of the framework and the methodology that is going to be rolled out in looking at these, we know Oldham is going to be one of them, but the additional four local inquiries or local audits that are going to be announced by the Home Secretary—”

“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…”