Modern Slavery Bill

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority has indeed done a very good job and I want to see how we can ...

Of course, I support the Bill, but I want to ask the Home Secretary about a specific instance, wh...

I recognise the point that the right hon. Gentleman makes. It is a point that has come up in some...

As the Home Secretary knows, we strongly support the legislation, but on that point, I understand...

Yes, we have been looking in detail at the research that has been undertaken. We have taken the i...

I welcome the Bill. I am sure that the right hon. Lady knows as well as I do that between 2,000 a...

The hon. Gentleman mentions some figures. The difficulty in all this is that we do not know the f...

Will the Home Secretary assure the House that the review of the NRM will be published before the ...

The current intention is that an interim report will be published, which should be available befo...

The Secretary of State has published a Bill that goes in the right direction, but she appears to ...

I am sorry about the tone in which the hon. Gentleman puts his question. The issue of supply chai...

It is not in the Bill.

Just because something—

Why won’t the Home Secretary answer?

I am answering the hon. Gentleman’s question, if he would like to listen to my answer. Not everyt...

As we know, the Home Secretary wants measures on supply chains in the Bill, but No. 10 opposes th...

That is the sort of intervention that I had probably best pass over. We have already legislated t...

If we table an amendment to clarify the responsibility of companies to recognise modern slavery a...

The right hon. Gentleman has been in the House long enough to know that it is open to Back Benche...

Does my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary share my hope that the Bill will help Governments ar...

My hon. Friend is right. One of the things that pleased me about the conference at the Vatican wa...

Has the Home Secretary received, as I have, a copy of the letter from the Ethical Trading Initiat...

The group to which the hon. Gentleman refers was part of the round table that I attended with bus...

The right hon. Lady is generous with her time. Just a few weeks ago, a lady in Northern Ireland d...

Across the House, we all share the same intention and desire to stamp out modern slavery, whereve...

In the wake of the recent controversies, particularly the reports about the Thai fishing industry...

A wide range of actions need to be taken if we are to deal with modern slavery, but the hon. Lady...

Will the Home Secretary assure me that, through reparation from the proceeds of such crime, there...

My hon. Friend must be psychic. I was about to say that the treatment meted out to victims by tra...

The Home Secretary will be aware that successful prosecutions of cases involving children are ver...

We have looked at that issue, which was one of the issues raised in the various discussions, incl...

Is there not a case, therefore, for inserting the age of 18 into the Bill? Where there is a dispu...

We will consider the definition of “young person,” but that is slightly different from having a s...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will give way once more. I am conscious that other people wish to speak.

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for giving way, and I do not want to take up other people’s t...

I absolutely appreciate the passion with which the hon. Lady makes that point, and the experience...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will give way, but then I will have to make some progress.

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for her response to my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa...

That is a legislative device—I do not use the term in a negative sense—that we are using elsewher...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I am being very generous in taking interventions and k...

I appreciate the Home Secretary’s generosity. It is essential that we have a cross-Government app...

The question of which physical office the commissioner will be situated in is still to be determi...

I am sorry to interrupt the Home Secretary, but the House might find it helpful to know that the ...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that clarification. Some people say that the way the co...

The Home Secretary is being extraordinarily generous in giving way. Moving away from the independ...

If my hon. Friend will bear with me, I will comment on the protection of victims later in my spee...

rose—

I will give way to the chair of the all-party group on human trafficking and modern-day slavery.<...

If the commissioner is to help increase prosecutions, they need to help to provide witnesses, who...

The right hon. Lady and I have discussed this important matter before, and I will talk about what...

As a vice-chair of the all-party group I am very happy to play a supportive role to the group’s c...

I suggest that the hon. Gentleman reread the Bill. The intention is not that the Home Secretary w...

I welcome the Bill and make clear the support of not only this side but both sides of the House f...

The shadow Home Secretary is absolutely right to mention the horrific case from Slovakia, but doe...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. In fact, I was just mentioning the original introduction ...

On strengthening the national referral mechanism and the whole question of the speed with which w...

I am very interested in looking further at that idea. My hon. Friend is right that the most compl...

A matter that has puzzled me since I went to the launch of the Scottish report is a point made by...

My hon. Friend makes an important point, which goes wider than devolution. Wherever across the Un...

As my right hon. Friend knows, many trafficked children also believe that the trafficker is their...

I will do that and I agree with my hon. Friend. We would like the law and the Bill to be strength...

There will be support from Government Members for the supply chain proposal. Those of us who defe...

The hon. Gentleman is exactly right on that. That is why so many businesses and major retailers a...

I am pleased to take part in this important debate on the Modern Slavery Bill, particularly as it...

Getting elected as co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on human trafficking and modern ...

I rise strongly in support of the Bill. At the outset, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Ho...

In common with the hon. Member for Central Devon (Mel Stride), I welcome the debate and commend t...

The hon. Gentleman will, like me, be aware of other legislation pursued and brought forward in th...

I think that that Bill has been subject to a number of different viewpoints in the Assembly, part...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that one important element that needs to be UK-wide is the ability...

Yes, I do believe and recognise that. In case the hon. Gentleman is thinking that there is some k...

Over the weekend, I read the online comment that “only leftwing feministas care” about the Modern...

The hon. Lady highlights the difficulty with prosecutions, but given the fact that the Bill merel...

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention because I think that one thing the Bill will ...

I want to talk about what is not in the Bill, rather than what is in it, because what is in it is...

The hon. Lady is making a very good point. The contrast between the situation of the Children’s C...

Absolutely. I do not want to labour the point, but we did learn the lessons from that approach, a...

The hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy) speaks with both experience and passion, and highlights a ...

Like other Members, I commend both the Home Secretary on prioritising and championing this legisl...

Does what my hon. Friend said earlier about the actual prosecution rate not give a new meaning to...

I could not have put it better myself, and I thank my right hon. Friend for his timely interventi...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield), particularly g...

It has been a pleasure to sit here listening to the debate, not just for the quality of the speec...

Order. We should not mention people in the Box, as much as we are tempted, and as great as the ma...

I accept that I cannot mention the great man in the Box, at whom we are now all looking. Conventi...

Will the right hon. Gentleman join me in saying a word of thanks and gratitude to all the volunte...

Indeed. The Bill is extraordinary because, when I first came to the House, I would have thought t...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field), and indeed all the ri...

After Bedfordshire police acted to take those people into safety, did they ensure that they had s...

My hon. and gallant Friend is absolutely right. I can reassure him that the victims were placed i...

It is the done thing when one rises to speak to say that the previous speakers have been excellen...

Some charities suggest that everyone who is rescued should have a guardian to ensure that they ar...

That is a valid point. The problem with leaving things to the voluntary sector is that provision ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy). I saw the report in...

Order. I may be able to help. He can be named, but we cannot point out that the person is present...

I think that the record will reveal to the wider world the true position. I am grateful to the Hu...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs Spelman). Like other Members, s...

We have heard that the Salvation Army is a fantastic organisation. I understand that it does not ...

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. We have heard several times about the need to care...

I draw attention to my entry in the Members’ register as trustee of the Human Trafficking Foundat...

I am enjoying the right hon. Gentleman’s speech, but I think I need to intervene to point out tha...

I am only repeating what Dickens said. I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervent...

The right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Sir John Randall) highlights the importance...

Does my hon. Friend agree that another area that might be worth revisiting as the Bill goes throu...

That would be a valuable point to examine, although it is not one of the UK-wide matters to which...

I join the many others who have spoken in wholeheartedly welcoming the Bill. Slavery is an abhorr...

It has been an enlightening afternoon—I have sat through most of the debate. I am sorry for those...

Surely my hon. Friend’s point emphasises my point that there needs to be effective co-operation a...

I do not in any way try to diminish my hon. Friend’s point, which he made very well. When I was o...

I pay tribute to all hon. Members who have spoken in the debate. Many compelling arguments have b...

I, too, welcome this Bill. Although it does not extend to Northern Ireland, I believe it is an im...

After the House has passed legislation, is it not vital that the courts step up to the mark and t...

I am pleased that the Bill enables sentences to be extended to life, which will give the courts a...

Again, I make the point that the debate has nothing to do with the National Crime Agency and the ...

The SDLP’s concerns may not relate to the recovery of assets from criminals but, because the Nati...

First, may I apologise to you, Mr Speaker, and the Home Secretary for having missed the first 20 ...

We all welcome this piece of legislation. The Home Secretary said that it would lead the world in...

This has been an excellent debate, which has shown the House at its best. I am grateful to all ho...

Will the Minister give way?

Time is short, and I would like to cover as many points as possible. I give a commitment to all M...