Child Grooming Victims: Compensation Awards

Lord Pearson of Rannoch Excerpts

Thursday 20th November 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Levitt (Lab)]

I thank the noble Baroness for her question. I recognise, of course, her ongoing interest in the Independent Public Advocate, which is very welcome. I do not know the answer, so I shall write to her.

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch (Non-Afl)]

Will the Minister join me in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Nicholson, on the wording of her Question, which for once does not put the word “Pakistani” in front of “child grooming scandals”? Does the Minister agree that the problem is to be laid at the door not of our Pakistani men but, very largely, of our Muslim men and that, therefore, the problem is religious, not ethnic?

[Baroness Levitt (Lab)]

I am afraid I am absolutely not going to agree with that. It is going to be a matter for the new national inquiry, and I am not going to pre-empt that.