Jess Phillips

Jess Phillips

Labour — Birmingham Yardley

Speaking in the House of Commons on 7 July 2025

Debate

National Inquiry: Grooming Gangs

Contribution

To the hon. Lady’s question, whether a local authority wishes to take part is not up for debate. The inquiry will be decided by the chair of the inquiry, as would happen in a statutory independent inquiry, and that work will go on. When we have inquiries, we have to make sure that we actually live by the recommendations of those inquiries. That is why I ask the hon. Lady why she voted against mandatory reporting and making grooming an aggravated factor—those were recommendations from the last inquiry—when she was asked to vote for them.

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