Speeches by Moore.

“And supermarkets. The Minister and Government are, dare I say it, alone on this point. Secondly, as he did not allow my intervention earlier, will the Minister confirm why the Government are not taking into account the value and the size of agricultural units when projecting the impact the changes will have on family f…”

“In Keighley, we have seen how labelling legitimate concerns around grooming gangs as far-right has distorted conversations, silenced victims and inadvertently given space to bad faith actors. It is therefore incredibly concerning to see this report written by Home Office officials using similar language, calling groomi…”

“You are not listening to the question.”

“Will the Minister confirm when he and the Government will start listening to the points being made by everybody outside this place—different stakeholders, banks, accountants—”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I thank the hon. Member for Caerfyrddin (Ann Davies) for securing this incredibly important debate. Here we are yet again, having summoned yet another Minister to the House. We have slowly worked our way through all the DEFRA Ministers, and now here we are…”

“Despite stating in 2021 that it was in “strong financial health”, Labour-controlled Bradford council now wants to put up council tax for my constituents by a whopping 15%. This is a shocking situation, resulting from continuous mismanagement by our council leaders, who have splashed millions of pounds of taxpayers’ mon…”

“Oh, right—sorry.”

“Did you read any case files across Keighley or the Bradford district as part of it?”

“Can I just ask why you chose six different towns or geographical areas to focus on? None of them was in West Yorkshire; none of them was in South Yorkshire. In fact, the only two in the north were Durham and St Helens. One of them was Warwickshire, for example. Why those six?”

“I completely agree with what you have just said, which is why the level of concern that I have is so strong, particularly around those areas such as the Bradford district that have not had a spotlight on them. The Home Secretary gave a statement to the House last week announcing, effectively, five audits that are going…”

“Yes, which is why I am specifically saying that there has been failure at a political level in all political parties. I have been quite clear on that consistently, for a long period. I just want to dig a little deeper on why we would not want to provide more openness and transparency with a national inquiry that looks …”

“There is an acknowledgment that, quite rightly, your report was very wide-ranging. On the assumption that this Government enact the full recommendations—I can understand your frustration that they have not been put in place fully, so let us assume that that is the aspiration of this Government and they are done at spee…”

“Let me start by thanking both of you—particularly you, Professor Jay—for your involvement over many, many years and for speaking and listening to some incredibly horrendous stories from many victims and survivors. I am deeply frustrated—that is too light a word; in fact I am infuriated—that not all of the recommendatio…”

“Reporting is absolutely vital, based on the complexity of what is being reported—I completely agree—but it is also important, is it not, that the ethnicity of the perpetrator is recorded as well as the ethnicity of the victim? John O’Brien: Absolutely.”

“And therefore, building on that, why that additional challenge exists. John O’Brien: Yes. I was merely making the point that if you record the ethnicity but not the crime, if you like, you get an inaccurate picture of what is occurring. You might understand more about ethnicity, but you still will not have a complete p…”

“Finally from me, in an earlier answer you indicated that the weight of this Committee has an ability to shine a spotlight on these challenges. Is there any advice that you would like to give us as a Committee beyond today, specifically on this issue, given the concerns that I have raised, not only at a local level but …”

“But that was with the will of the Rotherham council to do that.”

“If you are not at this stage agreeable to a national inquiry, I want to come back to my area, which I have been talking about for a long time: the Bradford district. How is it best to achieve a local inquiry across an area like Bradford, where the current position is that we do not have local leadership on Bradford cou…”

“Airedale hospital has some of the worst RAAC of all the hospitals on the new hospital programme. All the surveys have said that given the risk profile associated with RAAC, parts of the hospital will have no life expectancy beyond 2030, which is why the completion date of 2030 was so important. With funds having been a…”

“The House will be well aware that I have been consistently campaigning for a rape gangs inquiry into child sexual expectation across Keighley and the wider Bradford district for far too long. So I welcome some of the points that the Home Secretary has made, particularly on the implementation of the 20 recommendations f…”