Question follow-through · 21677
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will launch an inquiry into grooming and rape gangs.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will launch an inquiry into grooming and rape gangs.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government's priority is to take action on delivering against the recommendations of the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The Home Secretary announced on 6th January that we will be bringing in mandatory reporti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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