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Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many men convicted for their involvement in Pakistani heritage grooming gangs have been given access to children born from their crimes against the mothers’ wishes; and if she will make it her pol

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 7 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 9 Jan 2025
Answer: 21 Jan 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many men convicted for their involvement in Pakistani heritage grooming gangs have been given access to children born from their crimes against the mothers’ wishes; and if she will make it her pol
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
I refer the Rt Hon Member to the Home Secretary's statement made on 16 January 2025, in which she announced the appointment of Baroness Louise Casey to lead a rapid three-month audit into these issues. The audit will examine all the currently available da...

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