Question follow-through · 44288

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers will (a) give evidence to and (b) participate in the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming gangs.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 8 Apr 2025
Answer: 11 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Ministers will (a) give evidence to and (b) participate in the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's private inquiry into grooming gangs.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the answer he was given on the 8 April 2025 to Question 44194.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) officials and (b) social workers who (i) raised concerns, (ii) resigned and (iii) whistle-blew will be (A) protected and (B) encouraged to testify to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's p

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7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry into grooming gangs will be given access to documentation relating to those gangs.

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Offences against Children

7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department provides (a) training and (b) guidance to police on handling politically sensitive grooming gang cases.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure whistleblowers in child protection cases are protected.

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7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct police forces to release redacted records to the hon. member for Great Yarmouth's inquiry upon request.

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Offences against Children

7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were (a) removed, (b) reprimanded and (c) transferred after raising grooming-related failures between 1980 and 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Asylum: Appeals

8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases involving (a) failed asylum seekers and (b) people who have overstayed have reached the (i) Court of Appeal and (ii) Supreme Court since 2020.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Deportation

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Deportation: Appeals

8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals have absconded while awaiting deportation after lodging legal appeals in each of the last five years.

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Asylum and Undocumented Migrants: Deportation

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Immigration: Appeals

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