Home Office written question – answered at on 17 November 2025.
Warinder Juss
Labour, Wolverhampton West
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on the national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs.
Jess Phillips
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
We are working urgently to establish the national inquiry and appoint a suitable independent chair.
Baroness Casey is now actively supporting this process. We are also developing the Terms of Reference with partners across government and beyond, informed by early consultation with victims and survivors so that work on the inquiry can begin as soon as possible.
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