ghastly? you the chicken was ghastly? >> did you the chicken was ghastly.7 >> did you tell them that i did.7 >> did you tell them that i did? >> did you tell them that i did? >> did you? and i said, thank you very much. i don't want any free fizzy drinks. thank you. can i have a cup of tea? they looked like i was mad. cup of tea? but you get free fizzy drinks. i don't want free fizzy drinks. >> it's not that they're free. you just get. it's included in the price of the chicken unlimited. yeah, and you wonder why everybody's fat and their teeth are falling out. unlimited fizzy drinks with your meal. just keep going up and filling it up and you know. oh, apparently we've filled our time that we were meant to witter on. >> and we did keep supporting cash. >> yeah. that's right. right. it's pmqs. >> i'm. mr speaker, our thoughts, of course, are with those affected by the recent flooding. and we thank the responders who are working hard to keep communities safe. mr speaken to keep communities safe. mr speaker, this week we published our elective reform plan to rebuild our nhs and end the tory backlog. we will deliver where the previous government failed, empowering patients and boosting productivity, more care in the

community and incentivising reform. mr speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in this house.i addition to my duties in this house. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> on behalf of everyone in southwark and i hope the whole house, can i offer the prime minister condolences on the loss of his brother over christmas and we see everyone a happy new yeah and we see everyone a happy new year. last july, the public overwhelmingly backed labour's manifesto commitment to halving violence against women and girls. can the prime minister set out how today's vote on the children's wellbeing bill is a crucial step to delivering that promise to protecting children, and without the delay of an unnecessary, further lengthy inquiry? >> the prime minister can i thank him for his remarks about my brother and the other colleagues who have sent me remarks? mr speaker, he raises a very important issue. violence against women and girls. abuse. child sexual exploitation are sickening, and many victims have been let down for a very long time by warped ideas about community relations and the protection of institutions. mr speaken protection of institutions. mr speaker, he raises the question

of inquiries. there have been a number of inquiries, both national and local, including one covering oldham, and reasonable people can agree or disagree on whether a further inquiry is necessary. this morning i met some of the victims and survivors of this scandal, and they were clear with me that they want action now, not the delay of a further inquiry. the jay inquiry, the last national inquiry, was seven years, which would take us with a further inquiry to 2031. i think action is what is required. but whatever your view, whatever anyone's view on whether a further inquiry is needed, what i find shocking is that anyone in this house would vote down the children's wellbeing bill this afternoon, which is vital protections for the most vulnerable in our society. and i urge the leader of the opposition to withdraw her wrecking amendment.

>> leader of the opposition kemi badenoch. >> mr speaker, the whole house has heard that the prime minister lost his brother during the christmas period. so can i offer him on behalf of my party, our sincerest condolences. the new year has started with a focus on the decades long rape gang scandal. across the country, thousands of girls were tortured and sexually abused at the hands of men who treated them as things to be used and disposed of, destroying many lives forever. the prime minister has mentioned previous inquiries. he is right. there has been an inquiry into child sexual abuse. but it wasn't about the rape gang scandal. in its 468 pages, it mentioned rotherham just once. is the prime minister confident that we know the full extent of rape gang activity? >> prime minister, can i first thank her for her condolences? and can i thank her for reaching out over the christmas period

when i lost my brother? i really did appreciate that and i appreciate it today. mr speaker, on the question of a further inquiry, there have been a number of inquiries, some of them localised, including the mayor of manchester's inquiry recently and, of course, a national inquiry professor jay carried out took seven years, had 20 recommendations, none of which actually were implemented by the party opposite when they were in government. now this is a really serious issue and we must focus obviously on the victims and survivors. there is no fixed view on the victims and survivors about a further national inquiry. there are mixed views, but there is a view and i share this view that what is needed now is action on what we already know. we already know myself from personal knowledge. when i was chief prosecutor that warped ideas, myths and stereotypes about victims were at the heart of this. we've known that for a decade. the j

report called for mandatory reporting. i called for it 11 years ago. what we need now is action. what can't be tolerated is the idea that this afternoon, members opposite will vote down a bill which protects children, including include. mr speaker. mr speaker. >> mr speaker. >> mr speaker. >> mr speaker. >> mr speaker, let me just one of the provisions in the bill is to protect children vulnerable today who are out of school to prevent abusers ever taking those children out of school. i implore members opposite to defy the misleading leadership of the leader of the opposition and vote for a really important bill, kemi badenoch. >> mr speaker, i am shocked that the prime minister would say that actions were not taken. he knows full well that we accepted. 18. he knows full well that we accepted 18 of the 20

recommendations in the j inquiry recommendations in thej inquiry and went further, launching a gangs task force that found 550 more perpetrators. that shows that there is still work to be donein that there is still work to be done in rotherham alone. there have been over 1400 victims across oldham, bradford, bristol, rochdale and dozens more towns. there have been thousands more victims but no one has joined the dots. no one has the total picture and it is almost certainly still going on. correct. one victim from telford, and i know he says, that victims have different views. we have different views across this house. but one victim from telford says she wants a national inquiry because a national inquiry because it will hold people accountable in a way that previous inquiries have not. it is very possible to have not. it is very possible to have actions, take on more and still have a national inquiry. so why won't he listen to

victims and launch a national inquiry which would have the power to summon witnesses and make them give evidence under oath? >> prime minister? mr speaker, she says they accepted the recommendations. they did not act on them. one of the central recommendations was mandatory reporting and it still has not been enacted. i call for this 11 years ago. they've been tweeting and talking. we've been acting and talking. we've been acting and well. mr speaker, the leader of the opposition has been an mp, i think, for eight years. her party have been in government for seven and a half of those eight years. she was the children's minister. she was the children's minister. she was the women's and equalities minister. i can't remember her. i can't recall her once raising this issue in the house, once calling for a national inquiry. it's only in recent days she's jumped on the bandwagon. now, if i. mr speaker, in fairness, if i'm wrong about that and she has raised it, then invites her to say that now, and i will happily

withdraw the remark that she has not raised it in this house in the eight years that she's been here until today. answer. >> mr speaker, the prime minister is being very specific because i have raised this issue.i because i have raised this issue. i have raised it in speeches. i have raised it publicly. he knows he knows that as a minister. he knows that as as a minister. he knows that as a minister, i would not have been speaking on this specific issue.i been speaking on this specific issue. i was not a home office minister. but but, mr speaker, but, mr speaker, i will remind him about other victims who came to me, who i did help the victims of the tavistock scandal, who came to me as a minister. i didn't send them away like his safeguarding minister. i made sure as his labour party were calling me transphobic that we launched the cass review, which even his health secretary has accepted. so we do right by victims, mr speaken so we do right by victims, mr speaker. the reason why a national inquiry is important is

because this issue is systemic. it has been involving local and national officials, the police, prosecutors and politicians. he talks about some of the local inquiries, but these interlinked issues cannot be covered by local inquiries alone. in fact, the leaders of the manchester inquiry resigned the leaders of the