The Home Secretary has written to all police forces seeking more arrests in these cases. The current Government surpassed previous years' arrest numbers, focusing on holding perpetrators accountable.

A Government plan has been published with action on the Jay report, but full implementation will take years. A duty of candour is needed for transparency and accountability in inquiries.

The new authority will ensure accountability across the child protection system, consulting experts to define its role in clamping down on child rape gangs and similar crimes.

The Government has committed to five locations but expects to go further. No specific timeline is provided.

The new authority aims to ensure that the needs of victims are prioritised. Consultation with experts such as NSPCC ensures practical implementation rather than theoretical measures.

The Minister guarantees to meet with victims and commits to pursuing local authorities found to have problems in Baroness Casey's report.

The Minister agrees with all of these asks and acknowledges the importance of addressing ongoing grooming issues while working to improve the broken system.

The Minister refutes accusations of being part of any cover-up and commits to ensuring accountability for those responsible.

The Minister acknowledges ongoing issues with online grooming and supports focused police enforcement on this matter.

The Minister commits to following leads as they unfold, noting increased Government funding compared to previous allocations.

The Minister commits to ensuring that children who come forward today are not subjected to the same treatment as victims of past failures.

The Minister confirms the doubling of funding for adult historic rape victims to improve access to support.

The Minister confirms the focus on systemic issues and cultural changes necessary to ensure victims are believed.

I am committed to ensuring that we listen to healthcare workers, such as Sara Rowbotham, who have firsthand experience. A mandatory duty to report will be introduced, and the culture must change to ensure people are heard.

I am willing to meet and cooperate with anyone genuinely seeking to stop grooming gangs, including the hon. Gentleman.

The audit by Baroness Casey will not provide a framework, but an expert panel is working on it, and details of the fund will be published in May.

I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I will support efforts within legal frameworks to hold accountable those who covered up such crimes.

Thank you, I appreciate your support. The Labour Government will implement this recommendation.

Of course, I agree. We will follow the facts to ensure accountability while avoiding prejudice.

Group-based grooming, including British children being groomed from abroad and vice versa, is a priority for the Government. It forms part of our strategy to prevent child sexual abuse.

Local inquiries must be independent. They are not run by local authorities, ensuring independence and thoroughness.

The grooming gangs taskforce works with local police forces, leading to 1,100 more arrests for group-based child sexual abuse since its establishment.

I will not comment on the second point, but I encourage the hon. and learned Gentleman to read the existing 200-page document on group-based child sexual abuse.

We are working with professional bodies to prepare for mandatory reporting, ensuring that professionals are ready to support victims effectively.

What we have proposed is better because it is about acting now in areas where it is needed. We have already had a national inquiry, which took seven years and wrote a 200-page dossier on group-based sexual abuse—[Interruption.] There was a 200-page dossier specifically on that, and it took two years just to do that, and it made really good recommendations. I genuinely believe that the best thing for me to do is crack on with them.

I will wait for the review being undertaken by Baroness Casey and look at what it tells me, and then I will act on that.

I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s desire to always be respectful. I shall pay it back in kind and say that there is absolutely no way that the Government wish for the past to be forgotten or for a line to be drawn. That is absolutely the opposite of what I want. I want every single perpetrator rounded up and locked up; I want every single victim to feel supported; and I want everybody who covered these actions up to be held accountable for that—[Interruption.] I can hear chuntering from the shadow Home Secretary, who does not always show respect. There is this idea that people are held accountable by public inquiries, but that is not the case; nobody has gone to prison following the Hillsborough inquiry. Has anyone gone to prison as a result of the infected blood inquiry? No. Hon. Members should be careful about what they are promising can be achieved.