Labor MP Sarah Champion has pointed to the investigation in Telford at a cost of £8m.

And yet Ms Cooper has just announced £5m for an initial set of five new local inquiries.

Ms Champion generally welcomed the Home Secretary’s announcement, but as an MP who is well-respected on the issue, her concerns about the money issue may have set off alarm bells at the Home Office.

Conservative shadow Home Secretary Chris Phillips has said Yvette Cooper has promised “just five local inquiries”.

He told the Commons: “It’s totally inadequate when we know up to 50 cities are affected… How are the other 40 cities going to answer the questions they have? And how will these five primary cities be chosen?

“It appears that they will not be legal investigations … meaning that these local investigations do not have the power to compel witnesses to appear … If so, how can they find the truth when faced with a cover-up?”

Yvette Cooper said the Government would support local investigations into gang cleaning with £5m of funding.

Promising to use powers to hold failing officials to account, the Home Secretary told MPs that he would ensure “those complicit in cover-ups, or who try and resist surveillance, will always be held strongly accountable and truth and justice will never be denied”. . .

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told MPs that a “swift audit” by Baroness Casey will “properly check” ethnicity data.

Baroness Casey’s rapid review will also make recommendations, Ms Cooper said, explaining: “It will properly look at the ethnic and demographic data of the gangs involved and their victims, and look at the cultural and social determinants of this type of offending. including among them. Different ethnic groups.”

The interior minister said data on the make-up of gang operatives, including their ethnicity, was “inadequate”.

Yvette Cooper has also called on Baroness Casey to oversee a “swift audit” into gang exploitation in the country.

The audit will consider the “cultural triggers” of the breach, Ms Cooper said. The expedited audit will take three months.

He told the Commons that the Home Secretary would also support local investigations into cleaning gangs.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has written to the National Council of Police Chiefs to urge chiefs to look again at allegations of historic cleaning gangs where no action has been taken.

Ms Cooper told MPs that all police forces were expected to “produce profiles of the gang problem in their area”.

Yvette Cooper has warned that despite all previous national investigations, reports and hundreds of recommendations, “too little action has been taken and shamefully little progress has been made to tackle the sexual exploitation of children.

“This has to change,” the Home Secretary told the Commons.

He said the government would set a full timetable for implementing the 20 recommendations of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.

Yvette Cooper has said she and Protection Secretary Jess Phillips met earlier this week with Professor Alexis Jay, head of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

Professor Jay’s strongest message to us was that survivors who bravely testified about the horrific crimes committed against them should not feel that their efforts were in vain because, despite all inquiries, no one listened and nothing was done.

Responding that her speech was “a bit of a cheerleader”, Kimmy Budnoch said: “I’m speaking based on where the Conservative Party is.

We have just suffered our greatest defeat – so far, in hundreds of years. I don’t think the public will trust us if I appear to be having a good time and everything is wonderful.

I want them to know that we understand why they asked for change, why they voted for almost any party they could to kick us out.

So I’m doing serious work here. “I’m talking about the new leadership and I want them to know that things are different and we’re going to earn their trust.”