Hotel owners would be forced to inform the police if they suspect child sex grooming, under a crackdown proposed by one of the district’s MPs.

Kris Hopkins, the Keighley MP, is urging the Home Office to toughen up the law to prevent hotel owners turning a blind eye to the practice.

The Conservative MP said local police chiefs had raised the alarm over a small number of hotels being almost openly used by grooming gangs.

Mr Hopkins, a former Bradford Council leader, said police had told him there were hotels and bed-and-breakfasts where scantily-dressed under-age girls wandered around, with nobody challenging them or the men they are with.

And other forces – across Yorkshire and in England’s other big cities – had also reported establishments they viewed as “enablers” in the abuse of youngsters. Now Mr Hopkins will meet Home Office ministers to urge them to change the law as part of the Crime and Policing Bill.

He said: “This is a simple change that police in Keighley believe is the right thing to do.

“I want a requirement on those hotels to inform the police immediately, a responsibility to notice how old these young people are and their relationship with the men who come in with them.”

Mr Hopkins said his proposed law would not impose a blanket responsibility on all hotels – merely those about which the police had specific concerns.

He added: “A judge in chambers would have to authorise the demand, where a police force has intelligence, or suspicions, about a hotel or bed-and-breakfast.”

The calls comes one day after a report by a committee of MPs accused officials in some parts of the UK of failing to protect vulnerable children.

The Home Affairs select committee also warned of grooming of white girls by some Pakistani men, arguing Pakistani leaders needed to do more to prevent it.

Both Mr Hopkins and Ann Cryer, his Labour predecessor as Keighley’s MP, gave evidence to the committee’s inquiry.

Mrs Cryer was accused of demonising the Asian community when she first raised the issue more than ten years ago.

And Mr Hopkins recently re-ignited the debate when he claimed some grooming was linked to the unchallenged sexist behaviour of many Muslim men.