Tackling Child Sexual Abuse

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:25 pm on 8 April 2025.

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Photo of Jess Phillips Jess Phillips The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1:25, 8 April 2025

To answer the hon. Gentleman’s question, if criminal cases can be brought against any of those people, I am more than happy to speak to the taskforce that is working to improve the number of arrests—as I said, we have seen an increase in arrests—and see where criminal cases can be brought against them. I am more than happy to see those people locked up for as long as they deserve. However, we were left for some decades without a mandatory reporting duty on the statute books, one that would enable us to take to task, through the criminal justice system, the people who covered this up. We will rectify that.