Speeches by Moore.

“We all have to acknowledge that water companies have not been meeting their environmental obligations for far too long. That is why we implemented the monitoring. Regulators—Ofwat, the Drinking Water Inspectorate and the Environment Agency—need robust powers so that they can carry out enforcement. The water restoration…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I congratulate the hon. Member for Monmouthshire (Catherine Fookes) on securing this really important debate. Improving water quality is something that we all care about, on all sides of the House. Making sure that all those who pollute are held—in the stronge…”

“I come back to the point that monitoring is incredibly important. This is why we brought out a requirement for all water companies to specifically carry out more monitoring: before 2010, only 7% of storm overflows were monitored. That is completely unacceptable. We needed to understand the problem so that we could not …”

“A constituent of mine, Maria Culley, has long been campaigning for a comprehensive regulatory framework for nannies, such as mandatory background checks, standardised training, ongoing professional development and the inclusion of other standards, all to ensure that every nanny in the UK is held to a high standard, whi…”

“T8. The Skipton East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership campaign group has long been advocating, as have I, for a new rail link between Skipton and Colne, because it will bring huge benefits to the likes of Keighley, for both freight and passengers. Will the Secretary of State meet me to discuss this long ongoing campa…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. The Minister made reference to the fact that this delegated legislation follows on from the work of the previous Conservative Administration, which is why the official Opposition will support the regulatory changes proposed by the Government today. It is ri…”

“Nobody has, and that is exactly why I have been advocating for a local inquiry across the Bradford district—for far too long. A report of 50 pages that looked at five children who had been sexually exploited in the Bradford district was released in 2020. It acknowledged that there had been mistakes, but nobody was held…”

“Having consistently advocated for victims of the rape gangs scandal in my part of West Yorkshire—I have raised the subject more than 40 times in this place since being elected—I want to focus on that issue in the short time I have been allocated to speak today. It is over two decades since the Labour MP Ann Cryer, my p…”

“Will the Minister give way?”

“Rape gangs and the grooming of children has haunted Keighley and the wider Bradford district for decades, yet local leaders have consistently refused to launch an inquiry. The national IICSA report, which the Home Secretary is treating as a silver bullet, was not an inquiry into rape gangs. Nor does it reference Keighl…”

“I have been contacted by vast numbers of families and relatives of those who have been wonderfully cared for by Sue Ryder Manorlands hospice in Oxenhope in the Worth valley. They are all concerned about the impact that the rise in employer national insurance will have on them. Those at Manorlands are deeply concerned t…”

“Thank you, Mr Speaker. I take this opportunity to wish you and all in the House a very merry Christmas. Many customers are rightly concerned about Thames Water and the situation that company finds itself in. For the third time of asking the Secretary of State in this Chamber, will he confirm that he will not issue any …”

“Many businesses will be severely negatively impacted by the Government’s announcement on changes to inheritance tax through business property relief. Those in the hospitality sector, such as hoteliers and breweries, and even the manufacturing, engineering and tech businesses in my constituency, have contacted me with t…”

“I often think of our role as place-makers, problem solvers and great representatives of our constituencies, and on that basis, I say a huge thank you to all of my constituents for re-electing me. There is loads of fuel in the tank to keep me going in representing the mighty constituency of Keighley and Ilkley with grea…”

“One of the issues that concerns me is child sexual exploitation, particularly when we are looking at violence against women and girls. Greater Manchester published the Rochdale review, which identified 96 men with risk to children, and identified systemic failures at the local authority level. Do you agree that the wor…”

“Alexis Jay did a very good report into Rotherham and we have had Mayor Andy Burnham do the Rochdale review, both of which identified systemic failures at that local level. In my constituency of Keighley and Ilkley I am deeply concerned about issues of child sexual exploitation in the wider Bradford district. Given that…”

“A final question before moving on: one of the key concerns that keeps getting raised is this feeling of disenfranchisement felt by those victims and their families from the state, whether the state be local authorities or anyone who has safeguarding responsibilities. That has been raised with me, as well as things that…”

“Police misconduct.”

“Home Secretary, to expand on the associated wider remit associated with that, can you say what those other areas are likely to be?”

“I want to move on to police standards and confidence within policing, so moving on to themes. In October you announced a package of reforms to rebuild confidence in police officers and communities. Will you be publishing a formal response, building on the accountability issue, to the concerns that the last Administrati…”