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Baroness Benjamin (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 June 2026

Debate

Grooming Gangs: Independent Inquiry

Contribution

My Lords, in 2011 or 2012, I asked a Question on behalf of Barnardo’s—and I declare an interest as vice-president—about child sexual exploitation and how children were encouraged by their abusers to delete the evidence on their mobile phones that could lead to prosecution and that the children were not believed by the authorities. What provisions are in place today to collect such evidence that could prosecute evil perpetrators of child sexual abuse?

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