Speeches by Moore.

“You may have done. But you have to do that because the Home Secretary instructed the inquiry to do that. We are now 18 months after the original announcement was made on local inquiries. Why are you not able to right now, on day one, announce that the Bradford district will be included and looked at? I ask because the …”

“Let me just finish my point. Would it not show some leadership to single out an area that has been referenced by many a person, not just politicians, where there needs to be a spotlight shown, to reinstall that trust quite quickly, that this is a truly independent inquiry? I suppose the question that I want to ask is w…”

“What if it did today?”

“Have you calculated how many local areas you will be looking at?”

“I want to stay on the theme of local inquiries, if that’s okay. Zoë, you mentioned and you repeated this point that you have all the information available and you are going back into areas to be able to ascertain those key themes. “Themes” has come up quite a few times, but what worries me—my saying this will not surpr…”

“Will that process be outlined by 13 July as well?”

“Coming back to my question, how can we be confident about the funding? As a follow up, I hope the funding envelope would not restrict how many local areas can be explored, and which ones are explored. I want to push on the £65 million.”

“So will we be looking at new areas being explored?”

“To really push you on “We believe it is possible” with an envelope of £65 million: the inquiry, as I understand it, has not even announced which local areas it is going to be focusing on, or what the criteria are for which local areas there will be. Surely, therefore, the funding allocation is not known, when we do not…”

“All I am hearing, loud and clear, is that if Bradford council wrote to you today demanding to be part of the local inquiry, you could not say yes. Your response is, “Wait six weeks, and wait for our criteria.” That is worrying to me.”

“Is there a risk that that could be used against any of the outcomes of the inquiry in three years’ time? Is there any perception of political association that others may wish to use as a narrative further down the line?”

“I am struggling to understand. The only reason you are looking at Oldham, as far as I understand it, is because the previous Home Secretary announced over 18 months ago, in January ’25, that Oldham would have a local inquiry.”

“I am keen to understand how you will be able to receive information from whistleblowers, or from individuals who do not yet trust the system but are able to feed into you in the confidential way that you would expect.”

“Last week, I met Alice Jones, the headteacher of Oxenhope primary school, to talk about the funding challenges it is facing in supporting children with SEND and her deep concerns about this Government’s planned SEND reforms, which include shifting ECHPs to individual support plans, therefore limiting protection for ECH…”

“4. What steps the Government are taking to support children with SEND at school.”

“The scale is obviously increasing, given the 5,596 I referenced earlier. According to the BBC, 1,424 of those were cases raised by men, a rise of 66%.”

“Applications by women rose 47% in the same two-year period. It is definitely an increasing trend. In addition to raising the evidential bar, what is the Home Office doing about it?”

“Minister, staying with the VAWG strategy, concerns have been raised over the lack of focus on migrant and asylum-seeking women in the strategy. What assessment have you made of the impact of the changes to the immigration rules on migrant and asylum-seeking women at risk of VAWG?”

“Concerns have been raised—I have raised them to do with my own constituents in Keighley, and it may be similar in your own constituency; the BBC has also been reporting on this—about false claims by migrants purporting to be victims of domestic abuse to remain in this country. The numbers are quite staggering. Accordin…”

“In addition, what the Government are doing to help those against whom a false claim has been made? In my constituency, a false claim was made against the mother of a daughter who had come over from Pakistan. The mother was a teacher at one of my schools, who then lost her job because of the false claim and accusation o…”