Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 9 February 2015.
Theresa May
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
2:30,
9 February 2015
PCCs have made a range of issues a strategic priority for their forces, as the hon. Lady will know. We are clear that the impetus for dealing with modern slavery is coming from the Government and that it is a priority for the National Crime Agency. Police and crime commissioners will of course set what they believe to be the most appropriate strategic priorities for their areas. I am interested that the hon. Lady wants PCCs to be interested in this matter, because her party wants to abolish them, and if that were to happen, they could take no interest in it whatever.