Neil Bibby: ...homophobia, misogyny and bigotry in our society. Scotland’s role in global history is not one of unalloyed goodness—far from it. Scotland played an important role in the appalling history of slavery and the slave trade, as well as of colonialism. I welcome the framework’s acknowledgement of Scotland’s role in those atrocities and of the impact of emigration on other countries. The...
Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ...values. For example, last year we introduced new guidance on the risks of doing business in Xinjiang, enhanced export controls and announced the introduction of financial penalties under the Modern Slavery Act. This year, the Procurement Bill will enable public sector contracting authorities to reject bids and terminate contracts with suppliers which are known to use forced labour...
Lord Johnson of Lainston: ...the last year we introduced enhanced export controls, and announced plans to introduce financial penalties for organisations who fail to meet their statutory obligations to publish annual modern slavery statements. The overseas business risk guidance makes clear to UK companies the risks of operating in Xinjiang and urges them to conduct appropriate due diligence and consider their...
Edward Argar: ...victim and witness support services by 2024/5, up from £41m in 2009/10. As of September 2022, we have fully rolled out pre-recorded cross examination (Section 28) for victims of sexual and modern slavery offences in all Crown Courts across England and Wales. This is being used in over 150 cases per month. In December we launched a new 24/7 support line for victims of rape and sexual...
Edward Argar: On 3 April 2023, the government published a process evaluation of the implementation of pre-recorded cross-examination (section 28) for intimidated witnesses, including survivors of rape and modern slavery (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluati on-of-section-28-evaluating-the-use-of-pre-recorded-cross-ex amination-for-intimidated-witnesses). The evaluation explored...
Edward Argar: ...victim and witness support services by 2024/5, up from £41m in 2009/10. As of September 2022, we have fully rolled out pre-recorded cross examination (Section 28) for victims of sexual and modern slavery offences in all Crown Courts across England and Wales. This is being used in over 150 cases per month. In December we launched a new 24/7 support line for victims of rape and sexual...
Lord Paddick: ...undermines the UK’s tradition of providing sanctuary to refugees by removing the ability of refugees to exercise their legal right to claim asylum, by removing protections afforded to modern slavery victims and by increasing the number of people in indefinite detention, including children; … fails to provide safe and legal routes for refugees; … fails to include measures to eliminate...
Baroness Helic: ...to me about the Bill. However, I do not believe, I am afraid, that the Bill is likely to be successful in its stated goals or is moral at its core. I have three particular concerns: on modern slavery; on the rule of law; and on our international standing and commitments. First, modern slavery is an area where this party and this Government have led the way in the past. As other noble Lords...
Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...a Bill that she has been unable to sign off as human rights-compliant? That is discourteous and worse. By contrast, in 2015, and with consummate skill, Theresa May steered the landmark modern-day slavery and human trafficking legislation through Parliament, providing pre-legislative scrutiny and building bipartisan and bicameral consensus and support. Last week, with my noble and learned...
Lord Murray of Blidworth: ...with France; a new agreement with Albania; a new, unified small boats operational command; tougher immigration enforcement; new, more robust measures for identifying potential victims of modern slavery; and a plan to clear the legacy initial decision asylum backlog by the end of the year and move migrants out of expensive hotels. But we also need new legislation to make it unambiguously...
Richard Drax: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the risk of the migrants on the barge in Portland Port being forced into (a) modern slavery, (b) drug activity and (c) other crimes.
Edward Argar: ...protection and human rights claims to remain in the UK, with evidence. The Act also allows for disqualification from the receipt of a recovery and reflection period available to victims of modern slavery, for any FNO who receives a custodial sentence of 12 months or more. We are using the Home Office’s Illegal Migration Bill, which is currently passing through the House of Lords, to take...
Lord McColl of Dulwich: ...the Minister of State (Minister for Immigration) at the Home Office on (1) 28 March (HC Deb col 961), and (2) 29 March (HC Deb col 308WH), what evidence they are using for the abuse of the modern slavery system.
Altaf Hussain: ...might think that is a strange position for someone originally from Kashmir, given our history. For those not aware, Kashmir was sold by the British state to Gulab Singh and its peoples sold into slavery, despite slavery being banned by the British a few years earlier. However, I am a firm believer that the sins of the fathers will no longer be visited by their children. The sale of the...
Lord Murray of Blidworth: ...to the House at Second Reading I will extensively cover the questions raised by my right honourable friend the Member for Maidenhead, and address the broader questions in relation to modern slavery. It is not for me to explain the diary arrangements of the Home Secretary, but I can confirm to the noble Lord that the Home Office takes very seriously its engagement obligations with...
Gary Sambrook: ...like a cheap and quick way to have our cars washed but, unfortunately, behind this £1.8 billion industry is hidden money laundering, fraud, drug dealing, prostitution, labour abuse, modern-day slavery, tax avoidance and many other sinister crimes. An estimated half a billion pounds is lost in tax revenue. It is a pull factor for illegal migration and the pollutants often used damage the...
Charlotte Nichols: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to appoint the new Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner; and if she will make a statement.
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay: ...128 to 133 and 143 to 153, in the names of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Derby and the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, seek to ensure that priority offences relating to modern slavery and human trafficking, where they victimise children, are included in Schedule 6. These amendments also seek to require technology companies to report content which relates to modern...
Thangam Debbonaire: ...the Home Secretary just winging it? The Tory party is in disarray. The highly respected right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), a former Prime Minister rightly respected for her work on modern slavery, attacked this Tory Bill for giving traffickers greater leverage over victims to keep them in slavery. The blue on blue continued, with others concerned about safe and legal routes. We...
Robert Jenrick: ...Members for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) and for Maidenhead (Mrs May), was about our mutual desire for the good work they did in office to establish our world-leading modern slavery framework to live on, to continue supporting genuine victims—in particular, those victims of modern slavery who have been in the United Kingdom for a sustained period of time and who...
