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Written answers and statements, 16 May 2007

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Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what definitions of human trafficking are given in UK legislation.

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Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)

The UK ratified the United Nations Protocol to Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons on 9 February 2006 and uses the definition of trafficking set out in the Protocol. Legislation to comprehensively criminalise trafficking as defined in the Palermo Protocol was introduced by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into force on 1 May 2004, introducing wide-ranging offences covering trafficking into, out of or within the UK for any form of sexual offence. An offence, of 'trafficking for exploitation', which includes, for example, trafficking for forced labour and the removal of organs, is included in the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act 2004.

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