Domestic Workers (Trafficking)

Part of Women and Equality – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 20 March 2008.

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Photo of Anthony Steen Anthony Steen Conservative, Totnes 10:30, 20 March 2008

Is the Minister aware that many hundreds of women come into Britain every year with unscrupulous employers who beat them, bludgeon them, scare them, frighten them into submission and say that if they go to the police they will be deported? To ensure that domestic slavery does not continue to raise its head in Britain, as I believe it already has, will she consider the Home Office's proposal to prevent visas from being transferred from unscrupulous employers to other employers if the women escape?