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Written Question

Developing Countries: Slavery

Wednesday 18th October 2017

Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to tackle modern slavery in developing countries.

Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

DFID leads the cross government effort to tackle the scourge of modern slavery. Our Work in Freedom programme has already reached over 380,000 women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East.