Modern Slavery Bill

Moved by

Lord Bates

92: Clause 50, page 37, line 9, leave out subsection (5) and inse...

Moved by

Baroness Cox

94: After Clause 50, insert the following new Clause—

“Pr...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 94, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Royall of Blaisdon, and my nob...

My Lords, with her customary clarity, passion and eloquence, my noble friend Lady Cox has set out...

My Lords, I greatly regret that I have not previously been able to take part in this Committee, h...

My Lords, I fully support the amendment—as the Minister knows, because I told him some time ago. ...

My Lords, a powerful case has been made for the amendment, and I simply want to add my support. T...

My Lords, I conducted an inquiry into trafficking for the Equality and Human Rights Commission in...

My Lords, I, too, add support for the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Cox. This is a ...

My Lords, it happens here—it happens even in Scotland, as we have heard, that most civilised coun...

My Lords, I happen to have been involved with this situation, which allows serious abuses of inco...

My Lords, the name of my noble friend Lady Royall of Blaisdon is attached to this amendment. I ce...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cox, for introducing this amendment and speaking with ...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. Does she not accept that the figures that she...

I entirely accept what the noble Lord says; it may well be the tip of an iceberg. However, I am s...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Of course, everything that can be done ought to be done to s...

I think we are all agreed that that is a difficult problem and we are trying to find ways to tack...

Could the Minister explain how it would make abuse more, rather than less, likely if they have th...

If they had power to extend their visas indefinitely then the employer could keep them in the cou...

I thought the argument was that they had the power to change their employer. How does that make t...

It would enable them to extend their visas. It is the extension of the visa that would mean that ...

My Lords, forgive me, but I am boiling over sitting on the end of the Bench here. I am sorry that...

If I may say so, I am not aware that the noble Baroness’s Government produced answers to this eit...

I am grateful to the Minister. If she is open to suggestions, I wonder what she is prepared to sa...

I apologise to the noble and learned Baroness. I think she is referring to the domestic violence ...

My Lords, I warmly thank all noble Lords who have spoken in support of the amendment and have sug...

Moved by

Baroness Butler-Sloss

97: After Clause 50, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, this is another modest amendment to allow the Government to look at the Gangmasters Lic...

My Lords, I have Amendment 97A in this group, but I also support Amendment 97 in the name of the ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 101A in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Rosser, and...

My Lords, I support these amendments. I see them as a corollary of our concerns about supply chai...

My Lords, I will intervene very briefly because I agree with almost everything that has been said...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 97 tabled by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady But...

My Lords, I support noble Lords who have spoken in favour of these amendments, moved and spoken t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Baroness for tabling this amendment, and to othe...

My Lords, I am very pleased to hear of the work that is going on. I do not know whether I missed ...

It is indeed. I do not have that evidence directly to hand but it is probably something that the ...

My Lords, pursuant to that point, would the Minister also look at the evidence that I referred to...

My Lords, that is an excellent idea. We will do that and come back at Report.

I, too, pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Whitty. He ought to be proud of his baby, which is ve...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

97AA: Clause 51, page 37, line 27, at end insert—

“( ) A s...

My Lords, the movement the Government have made on this issue during the last stages of the Bill’...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Rosser on this amendment. I feel extremely strongly abou...

My Lords, at the end of Second Reading the Minister, referring to one noble Lord—but I think it m...

My Lords, the Government are to be congratulated on putting Clause 51 down. It is a very importan...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate—and the noble Lord, Lord Ros...

While the Minister is on the point about the interdepartmental group, will it recognise—I hope th...

Those are very good points well made. My home town, Gateshead, is the proud home to Traidcraft, w...

Before I do that, did the Minister early in his reply refer to coming back at a later stage or no...

Coming back at a later stage to spell this out in greater detail?

Yes.

I do not think I actually said that. I think I related it to the consultation. The Government’s p...

I thank the Minister for clarifying that point and for his reply. I suppose one’s observation wou...

I did not mean not to give the courtesy of addressing the specific amendment. We believe that it ...

I can only comment that it is very difficult for civil society to make a judgment if there is not...

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

98: After Clause 51, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Bates, said, this is the second of three amendments that consid...

The noble Lord, Lord Alton, has set out the case in his usual full and very effective way, and I ...

I shall speak to Amendment 98A and support Amendment 98. I start by declaring an interest as patr...

My Lords, I support Amendment 98, which was moved by the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool.

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and I am grateful to...

My Lords, I will be brief. These two amendments are wider-ranging than my amendment but their int...

I cannot quite match the noble Lord’s brevity, but I will try to go as far as I can, because some...

I thank the Minister for giving way, but will he pay particular attention to the speech of the no...

I agree, and my noble friend Lady Mobarik made a very good point by making it clear that it is ou...

My Lords, the Minister has been generous in how he has dealt with the issues that have arisen, es...

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

99: Before Clause 52, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I fear I have drawn the short straw and may be exasperating one or two noble Lords, but...

My Lords, the Government will be rightly congratulated when the Bill has gone through all its sta...

My Lords, I also support the amendment. I am not sure in what year the review should be held. I t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for proposing the amendment. The Governmen...

My Lords, if, as the Minister has said, this legislation has been exemplary in the way in which i...

Moved by

Lord Bates

101: Clause 52, page 39, line 10, at end insert—

““child” m...

Moved by

Lord Bates

102: Schedule 4, page 62, line 16, at end insert—

“Legal Ai...