Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to establish a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.

The Government is committed to getting to the truth of both historical and current group-based child sexual exploitation or grooming gangs offending, to ensure that perpetrators are punished and to deliver justice and accountability for victims and survivors.

We will set our next steps to tackle this heinous offending when we publish Baroness Casey’s audit in the coming weeks.