Cannabis Factories (Child Labour)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Solicitor-General – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 19 June 2008.

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Photo of Anthony Steen Anthony Steen Conservative, Totnes 10:30, 19 June 2008

May I first compliment the Solicitor-General on her new pixie look? I hope that that is not inappropriate. Will she explain why on 11 June a 15-year-old Vietnamese boy was jailed for the work of tending cannabis plants in Doncaster when he had clearly been trafficked, threatened with violence, kept prisoner and was desperately scared? Are not the Government supposed to be committed to rescuing child victims of trafficking, not sending them to prison and criminalising them?