Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 18 May 2009.
Keith Vaz
Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee
2:30,
18 May 2009
Mr. Crabb is absolutely right to raise the issue of care homes. Last week, The Guardian reported that 77 trafficked Chinese children went missing from a home in Hillingdon, and hundreds more have gone missing in the past 10 years. I am grateful to the Home Secretary for coming to the Select Committee seminar last week, but will the Minister tell the House when she will be in a position to report back to the Prime Minister, who has asked her for an urgent report on the situation in care homes? Does the Minister not agree that the way to stop children being trafficked is to bring together the origin, destination and transition countries and put our faith in organisations such as Europol, which exist to try to stop this horrible practice continuing?
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Robert Horner
Posted on 20 May 2009 12:40 pm (Report this annotation)
Suddenly caring for traffict women and children mr Vaz ? I`m still waiting for a reply to a mail sent to you over 5 years ago warning you exactly about this then rising problem. Your a waste of time just resign and save us all some money.