00:00Can I join the Prime Minister in congratulating TGB on our most successful Winter Olympics ever?
00:06And can I also join him in solidarity with our Ukrainian allies and friends
00:10after four years of them resisting Vladimir Putin's war machine?
00:15Mr Speaker, the former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has raised deeply shocking concerns
00:21that Jeffrey Epstein may have used British airports and even RAF bases
00:27to traffic young women and girls in and out of our country.
00:31This is appalling.
00:34The Prime Minister knows that I agree with Gordon Brown
00:37that there needs to be a full public inquiry into all this.
00:40If he doesn't agree with Gordon Brown, will he, at the very least,
00:44commit to releasing the flight logs and related documents?
00:49Will he wait for the House to force the Government to do that?
00:52Prime Minister.
00:53Well, I think it's important to appreciate there's obviously a police investigation going on.
00:58And I think it's right, and I'm sure he agrees with this,
01:01that that has to go wherever the evidence takes it.
01:04And we have to let that investigation run its course
01:07before deciding what next action needs to be taken.
01:10Is that it, David?
01:11I think we all agree that police investigation should take priority,
01:14but that doesn't rule out a public inquiry,
01:16and it certainly doesn't rule out releasing the flight logs,
01:19which I think really should be.
01:20Mr Speaker, on a different note,
01:23it's been revealed the trustee of William Blake House,
01:27a home, a care home for adults with profound disabilities,
01:31embezzled £1 million.
01:33There are very few homes in the country which offer this sort of care,
01:37and now it faces closure.
01:40As a father of disabled son myself,
01:43can I tell the Prime Minister this situation is one of my worst nightmares?
01:46It's one of the worst nightmares of many parents with disabled adult children.
01:52The Families of the Residents have put forward a rescue plan
01:55to take over William Blake House and run it themselves.
01:58It will require HMRC resolving the debt issue
02:01and the Charity Commission to appoint an independent board.
02:05So will the Prime Minister meet with the families and back their plan?
02:11Prime Minister.
02:12Could I thank him for raising this case,
02:14which is obviously a cause of considerable concern,
02:17and of course I'll make sure that the relevant meeting is put in place
02:21for all of the individuals who need that meeting.
02:26The Prime Minister recently stated
02:28we will not allow the powerful to treat justice as optional.
02:32He was talking about Epstein's enablers.
02:34But my constituent, who uses the pseudonym Isabella,
02:38has asked me to ask the PM whether his words also apply
02:41to those who assisted Britain's Epstein, Mohamed Al-Fayed,
02:45a monster who, with others, abused her and hundreds of other women and girls,
02:49the human trafficking scandal that the Mets,
02:52unlike the French authorities,
02:53are still refusing to treat as such.
02:56So will the Prime Minister ensure sufficient resources are committed
03:00to fully investigating his multi-perpetrator,
03:03multi-jurisdictional, multi-decade trafficking outrage
03:06and meet with Isabella and her fellow victims
03:09to understand the terrible scale of this shocking crime?
03:13Can I thank you for raising this really important case
03:16on behalf of really important victims?
03:19I'm sure the thoughts of the whole House are with those victims.
03:22Every report of sexual offence should be treated seriously.
03:27Every victim should be treated with dignity.
03:30And every investigation should be conducted professionally.
03:33The Safeguarding Minister is meeting the victims.
03:36And I will make sure that his constituent is part and included
03:41in those meetings.
03:43If he gives me the full details, I'll make sure that happens.
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