Written questions

Offences against Children: Inquiries

Commons · Question 84775 · Tabled 23 Oct 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 28 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Rupert Lowe

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating a cross-party commission to progress the public inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Answer

Answered by Jess Phillips, 28 Oct 2025

The Government is driving forward work to establish the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse under the Inquiries Act 2005. It will be overseen by an Independent Commission with statutory powers to compel evidence and testi...