Child Sexual Offender Data Debate

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Department: Home Office

Child Sexual Offender Data

Luke Myer Excerpts
Monday 1st June 2026

(1 week, 2 days ago)

Westminster Hall
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Natalie Fleet Portrait Natalie Fleet
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Thank you.

We will look at research, including on the role that ethnicity, culture and religion play in group-based offending so that our response can lead to lasting, systemic change that everybody in this House, including the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe), is right to call for today.

Luke Myer Portrait Luke Myer (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) (Lab)
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There is a worrying tendency to view these issues as historical. A few months ago I pressed the Home Secretary on the question of whether the national inquiry will be able to look at evidence of crimes that might currently be being committed and refer them to the relevant agencies. Does the Minister agree that is absolutely necessary if we are to deal with these crimes today?

Natalie Fleet Portrait Natalie Fleet
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It absolutely is, and I will come on to that.