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Ann Cryer mentioned

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16 Jun 2025, 5:22 p.m. - House of Commons "Ann Cryer. And she did speak out and stand out for children who were " Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
9 Dec 2025, 2:23 p.m. - House of Commons "for Keighley, Mrs. Ann Cryer, a courageous Labour member on the " Rt Hon Sir Julian Lewis MP (New Forest East, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
9 Dec 2025, 2:24 p.m. - House of Commons "which I'm aware. And does she not think that Ann Cryer might even now have some insights to share with an " Rt Hon Sir Julian Lewis MP (New Forest East, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript

Parliamentary Debates
Grooming Gangs: Independent Inquiry 57 speeches (9,977 words) Tuesday 9th December 2025 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) shockingly, Keighley and the wider Bradford district have never had a full independent inquiry despite Ann Cryer - Link to Speech 2: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) Few of us here today were present in 2003 when the then MP for Keighley, Mrs Ann Cryer—a courageous Labour - Link to Speech
Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 56 speeches (9,208 words) Tuesday 2nd September 2025 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) Over the summer, Lord Cryer said that there was a deliberate attempt to silence his mother, Ann Cryer - Link to Speech 2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) I pay tribute to Ann Cryer, a woman I am incredibly fond of—personally as well as professionally—for - Link to Speech
Marriage between First Cousins 10 speeches (4,314 words) Wednesday 18th June 2025 - Westminster Hall Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Richard Holden (Con - Basildon and Billericay) I think back to the Labour MPs who raised that issue at a much earlier stage, such as Ann Cryer, who - Link to Speech
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report 26 speeches (6,321 words) Wednesday 18th June 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Cryer (Lab - Life peer) raised the issue of the rape gangs—in other words, the first whistleblower—happened to be my mum, Ann Cryer - Link to Speech 2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I pay tribute to Ann Cryer, the mother of the noble Lord, Lord Cryer. - Link to Speech
Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report 119 speeches (16,203 words) Monday 16th June 2025 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) I hope something else we can all agree on is our admiration for the former Labour MP Ann Cryer, who exposed - Link to Speech 2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) I do thank my former honourable Friend Ann Cryer, because she did speak out and stand up for children - Link to Speech
Oral Answers to Questions 120 speeches (9,921 words) Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Mentions: 1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) Former Labour MP Ann Cryer said that there were councillors and MPs all over the country who knew what - Link to Speech
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 333 speeches (56,273 words) Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Commons Chamber Department for International Development Mentions: 1: Nigel Farage (RUK - Clacton) campaign for more truth and honesty about what has gone on, although the former Labour MP for Keighley, Ann Cryer - Link to Speech 2: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) It is over two decades since the Labour MP Ann Cryer, my predecessor, first brought the issue to the - Link to Speech
Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 79 speeches (11,167 words) Monday 6th January 2025 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) pay tribute to people who have raised these cases over the years, starting with former Labour MP Ann Cryer - Link to Speech

Select Committee Documents
Tuesday 1st April 2025 Oral Evidence - Tom Crowther KC Home Affairs Committee Found: have been advocating for an inquiry to take place across the Bradford district, as indeed had Ann Cryer
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 Written Evidence - National Secular Society GIS0001 - Gendered Islamophobia Gendered Islamophobia - Women and Equalities Committee Found: labour-policy-grooming-gang-racist-islamophobia-xm7mxf9fk 4 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/30/rotherham-girls-could-have-been-spared-ann-cryer
Tuesday 17th December 2024 Oral Evidence - Home Office, Home Office, and Home Office Home Affairs Committee Found: Given those concerns that are being raised not only by me but others—a former colleague of yours, Ann Cryer