Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the National Inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse will have powers under the Inquiries Act 2005 to compel evidence from serving and former (a) police officers, (b) council staff and (c) elected officials; and whether those powers have been formally granted.

I refer the hon. Member to my response to the Urgent Question of 21 October.