Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Roger Gale Excerpts
Monday 8th June 2026

(4 days, 7 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mike Tapp Portrait Mike Tapp
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It is important that we continue our strategy to bring net migration down while also maintaining agricultural industries. I have met a number of people across the sector and of course I am happy to meet my hon. Friend after questions.

Roger Gale Portrait Sir Roger Gale (Herne Bay and Sandwich) (Con)
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Further to the answer given to the hon. Member for Lichfield (Dave Robertson) earlier, Mohamed Fayed is beyond the reach of terrestrial justice, but many of the ladies he abused are still waiting for justice. The Metropolitan police has been conducting an inquiry into the activities of those who aided and abetted Fayed for many months. Will the Home Office ask the Met to expedite the inquiry so that those ladies can at last have justice?

Natalie Fleet Portrait Natalie Fleet
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I can absolutely confirm how close this issue is to my heart. Within the boundaries of operational independence, the Home Office is regularly engaging, and rightly so, with the Metropolitan police. Those women absolutely deserve justice, and I will do everything within my power to make sure that they get it.