Home Department written question – answered at on 14 March 2013.
Michael Connarty
Labour, Linlithgow and East Falkirk
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Inter-departmental Ministerial Group on Human Trafficking met in each of the last three years; which Ministers attended these meetings; and when the group is next due to meet.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
Since the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group was refocused in May 2010 the group has met five times. A list of members and attendees for these meetings is provided in the following tables:
| Meeting date: 11 March 2013 | |
| Name | Title |
| Attendees | |
| Mark Harper MP | Minister for Immigration (Chair) |
| Oliver Heald QC MP | Solicitor-General |
| Helen Grant MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims and the Courts and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities |
| David Ford MLA | Minister of Justice, Northern Ireland Executive |
| Jo Swinson MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Employment relations, consumer and postal affairs |
| Carl Sargeant AM | Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Welsh Assembly Government |
| Baroness Randerson | Wales Office, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State |
| Apologies | |
| Edward Timpson MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children(1) |
| David Mundell MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland(1) |
| Kenny MacAskill MSP | Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Scottish Executive(1) |
| Hugo Swire MP | Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(1) |
| Anna Soubry MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health(1) |
| Lynne Featherstone MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development(1) |
| Mark Hoban MP | Minister of State for Work and Pensions(1) |
| Baroness Hanham MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities(1) |
| Jeremy Browne MP | Minister of State for Crime Prevention |
| Meeting date: 17 September 2012 | |
| Name | Title |
| Attendees | |
| Mark Harper MP | Minister for Immigration (Chair) |
| Jeremy Browne MP | Minister of State for Crime Prevention |
| Helen Grant MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims and the Courts and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities |
| Anna Soubry MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health. |
| David Ford MLA | Minister of Justice, Northern Ireland Executive |
| Kenny MacAskill MSP | Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Scottish Executive |
| Edward Timpson MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children |
| Apologies | |
| Oliver Heald QC MP | Solicitor-General(1) |
| Baroness Hanham MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities(1) |
| Hugo Swire MP | Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(1) |
| Lynne Featherstone MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development(1) |
| Mark Hoban MP | Minister of State for Work and Pensions(1) |
| Carl Sargeant AM | Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Welsh Assembly Government(1) |
| David Mundell MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland(1) |
| Stephen Crabb MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Wales |
| Meeting date: 17 April 2012 | |
| Name | Title |
| Attendees | |
| Damian Green MP | Minister for Immigration (Chair) |
| Tim Loughton MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families |
| Jeremy Browne MP | Minister of State, FCO |
| Crispin Blunt MP | Minister for Justice |
| Baroness Hanham MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities |
| David Jones MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales |
| David Ford MLA | Minister of Justice, Northern Ireland Executive |
| Apologies | |
| Lynne Featherstone MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities and Criminal Information |
| Stephen O'Brien MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development(1) |
| Anne Milton MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health(1) |
| Chris Grayling MP | Minister for Employment(1) |
| Kenny MacAskill MSP | Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Scottish Executive(1) |
| David Mundell MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland(1) |
| Carl Sargeant AM | Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Welsh Assembly Government |
| Edward Garnier QC MP | Solicitor-General(1) |
| Meeting date: 11 October 2011 | |
| Name | Title |
| Attendees | |
| Damian Green MP | Minister for Immigration (Chair) |
| Lord Wallace of Tankerness | Advocate General for Scotland |
| Baroness Hanham MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities |
| Jeremy Browne MP | Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| David Jones MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales |
| Stephen O'Brien MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development |
| Apologies | |
| Edward Gamier QC MP | Solicitor-General(1) |
| Tim Loughton MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families(1) |
| Anne Milton MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health(1) |
| Michael Moore MP | Secretary of State for Scotland(1) |
| Lynne Featherstone MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities and Criminal Information |
| Kenny MacAskill MSP | Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Scottish Executive(1) |
| David Ford MLA | Minister of Justice, Northern Ireland Executive(1) |
| Carl Sargeant AM | Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Welsh Assembly Government(1) |
| Crispin Blunt MP | Minister for Justice |
| Baroness Wilcox | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills |
| Lord Freud | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare Reform |
| Meeting date: 17 February 2011 | |
| Name | Title |
| Attendees | |
| Damian Green MP | Minister for Immigration (Chair) |
| Crispin Blunt MP | Minister for Justice |
| Kenny MacAskill MSP | Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Scottish Executive |
| Edward Gamier QC MP | Solicitor-General |
| Tim Loughton MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families |
| David Jones MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales |
| Lynne Featherstone MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities and Criminal Information |
| Apologies | |
| Anne Milton MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health(1) |
| Jeremy Browne MP | Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(1) |
| David Ford MLA | Minister of Justice, Northern Ireland Executive(1) |
| Stephen O'Brien MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development(1) |
| Baroness Hanham MP | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities |
| Chris Grayling MP | Minister for Employment |
| David Mundell MP | Scotland Office, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State |
| Carl Sargeant AM | Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, Welsh Assembly Government |
| (1) Indicates official level deputies present at the meeting. | |
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