Written Question·Home Office·UIN 54931

Offences against Children

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Lewis Cocking

ConservativeBroxbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the (a) cultural and (b) religious backgrounds of grooming gang offenders.

Answer

Jess Phillips
Earlier this year, the Home Secretary commissioned Baroness Louise Casey to undertake a national audit into the nature, scale and characteristics of this type of offending, including considering the cultural and societal drivers for this offending. I will...

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