Mentions:
1: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Lab - Life peer) I gently point out that the Modern Slavery Act has a definition in it, so why is there such resistance - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) police that we are talking about child exploitation, of which modern slavery is a component. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) I wish it was simple and easy to say, “They are the victims and they are the perpetrators”. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) That was intended to deal with the perpetrators rather than the victims. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) , and will ensure that we assist victims in receiving appropriate support. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) What support are those victims going to get? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Earlier this year, the UN reported an 80% increase in the risk of women and girls in Sudan being the victims - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) They are the best of humanity in the face of the worst.As we have heard, the main victims are women and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) when the Modern Slavery Act 2015 was drafted a decade ago. - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) of modern slavery, human trafficking and exploitation. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) The victims have to keep reliving the trauma, but nothing moves forward. - Speech Link
4: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) How much longer must the victims and survivors wait? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Will Forster (LD - Woking) We do not want to force human beings who are desperate to avoid a life of slavery and crime into dangerous - Speech Link
2: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) We will retain existing safeguards to protect the vulnerable, including settlement rights for victims - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which provides a statutory defence for victims of exploitation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) When Parliament passed the Modern Slavery Act in 2015, we accepted, rightly, that victims sometimes commit - Speech Link
3: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) I say to him that the Government are satisfied that the Modern Slavery Act 2015 adequately protects victims - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) This protects potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking from being charged and prosecuted - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) seek to frustrate a legitimate removal, so I will bring forward legislation that tightens the modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Also, the national referral mechanism for modern slavery is one of the most difficult things to access - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) We have already consulted on modern slavery legislation, and that consultation has closed. - Speech Link
4: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) background whose ancestors faced prejudice, as will there be many Jews and Muslims who have been victims - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Goschen (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This is wrong, so we ought to use the Bill, in a very positive way, to remove that burden on the victims - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) Her tireless campaigning on behalf of victims and the bereaved was truly inspirational. - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) These criminal organised gangs are also involved in drugs, firearms, money laundering and modern slavery - Speech Link
4: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) Half these victims were women, with attacks often occurring in a domestic abuse context, but only 8% - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Ultimately, we want to focus on all individuals who are victims of knife crime. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) Bonded labour is an abuse analogous to slavery. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) According to the Global Slavery Index, 2.3 million people are living in modern slavery in Pakistan, making - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) them money and then permitting them to make all manner of spurious asylum, protection and modern slavery - Speech Link
2: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) of modern slavery, not those who seek to use our generous provisions to prey on vulnerable people or - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LD - Life peer) First, focusing on restriction of access to modern slavery protections for individuals, particularly - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) At that time, Labour, in opposition, strongly supported an amendment to the victims’ code to make it - Speech Link
2: Baroness Maclean of Redditch (Con - Life peer) Amendment 79C, on modern slavery, would require the Government to publish an annual report of grants - Speech Link
3: None of asylum or refugee status on modern slavery grounds. - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) of modern slavery go on to receive asylum or refugee status. - Speech Link