clarke, gary banks, debbie morris grace, cleveland, laurel owens and all of their teams for all of the work they did to bring us here today. we are delighted to host the miller center's abraham lecture and to welcome all of you, our distinguished guest to the law school today, the honorable breyer, retired associate justice of the supreme court of the united has lived an exemplary life service to others and to the nation. he was born in san francisco, studied philosophy at university, then earned a in philosophy, politics and economics as a marshall scholar at the university of oxford. after graduating from harvard law school, he clerked for supreme court justice goldberg. and during this time he also spent eight years in the united states army reserve, including active duty and the army's strategic intelligence intelligence division. and he received an honorable discharge in 1965 after serving two years in the department of justice's antitrust division, justice breyer joined the harvard law school faculty, where he was a renowned expert in administrative. during nearly 15 years on the harvard faculty, he returned to government service on three occasions as an assistant pros

. >> select committee chair debbie abrahams thank you, madam deputy speaken abrahams thank you, madameputy speaker, and i welcome my right hon. friend's statement. child sexual exploitation and abuse is a heinous crime. it happens everywhere, in all communities, in all settings, all settings, and we must all be vigilant and do what we can to address that. my do what we can to address that. my right hon. friend mentioned the importance of ensuring that victims of csa are at the heart of all that we do, and i support it wholeheartedly with that. and if it is the will of these victims of abuse in oldham, to have an additional review of the circumstances which led to the abuse, then i will also be wholeheartedly supporting that. but can my right hon. friend expand on how we can transparently track progress with the completion dates set for the recommendations? it can't be allowed that we have the detailed recommendations from a national independent inquiry, and three years later, we're still waiting for them to be. >> my hon. friend makes a really important point. i know she has worked im