Question follow-through · 103616
Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the independent inquiry into grooming gangs to commence taking evidence; and what steps she is taking to support cross-Government cooperation with the inquiry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the independent inquiry into grooming gangs to commence taking evidence; and what steps she is taking to support cross-Government cooperation with the inquiry.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
On 9 December 2025 the Home Secretary announced Baroness Anne Longfield as Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs, alongside panellists Zoë Billingham CBE and Eleanor Kelly CBE. She also published the draft Terms of Reference, which she has ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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