Written Question·Home Office·UIN 64913

Offences against Children: Inquiries

Tabled: 3 July 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Dan Carden

LabourLiverpool Walton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation is (a) independent and (b) led by survivors.

Answer

Jess Phillips
As previously announced, the national inquiry will be established as an independent statutory inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005. While the Chair will determine the inquiry’s conduct and procedures, the Government remains firmly committed to placing vic...

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