Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Oral Statement of 16 January 2025 on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Official Report, columns 560-563, how overhauled ethnicity data from local areas will differ from expanded ethnicity data collected by the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce.

Further details of the Government’s work to tackle Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, including improved data collection on group-based CSE and the scope of Baroness Casey’s audit, will be provided in due course.