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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4,

for Monday the 28th of April, when the Conservatives repeated their call for a national inquiry into grooming gangs.

Five local inquiries, which can't compel the production of evidence, just won't do.

Fifty towns are affected, not five.

The Culture Secretary attacks the Conservatives for failing to sign up to a new system

for regulating English football.

This is genuinely a shameful moment, pitting themselves against fans, clubs and the national game.

And grim revelations as MPs debate a call to ban scientific experiments on dogs.

I was horrified when I became aware that dogs still could be force-fed pesticides.

But first, the Home Office Minister Jess Phillips has told MPs she expects that there will be more local inquiries into grooming gangs than the five that have already been announced.

At the start of the year, the Home Secretary commissioned a three-month audit

looking into the scale and nature of gang-based exploitation,

alongside a series of victim-centred local inquiries.

Yvette Cooper made the announcement following calls from opposition parties

for a new national inquiry into child sexual abuse and exploitation.

A call repeated today by the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp.

The last government took action by setting up the wider J inquiry and the grooming gang's task force.

But the truth is, that is not enough.

There is now clear evidence that those in authority covered up these rapes because the perpetrators were mainly of Pakistani heritage.

The government has said there will be local inquiries in Oldham and four other areas. Chris Philp said

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