Jess Phillips

Jess Phillips

Labour — Birmingham Yardley

Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 October 2025

Debate

Rape Gangs: National Statutory Inquiry

Contribution

I will chair an interministerial cross-Government group next week to push through the other recommendations. Baroness Casey made 12 recommendations, but people rarely speak about any of the others. This was not her most pressing one; instead, she gave primacy to the policing-related recommendation around Operation Beaconport. As I said in my previous statement on 2 September, the work on the 216 cases that moved forward is ongoing and runs alongside this. That is where justice will be served: in our courts—if only they had not been horrendously degraded so that rape victims wait for years and years.

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