Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions for offences against children there have been for the Offence of Slavery, Servitude and forced or compulsory Labour under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in each year since its enactment.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Crown Prosecution Service (‘CPS’) maintains a central record of the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced, including offences charged by way of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. This data may be further disaggregated by the child abuse case monitoring flag. The CPS definition of child abuse covers any case where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offence and includes allegations or crimes perpetrated by both adults and under 18s.
Section 1 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 provides an offence of slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour; Section 2 provides for a single offence of human trafficking covering sexual and non-sexual exploitation; and, Section 4 provides that it is an offence to commit another offence with a view to committing a trafficking offence under Section 2.
Since the Act came into force and up to the end of March 2020, the number of Modern Slavery Act offences flagged as child abuse is as follows:
| 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1 } | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 2 } | 1 | 21 | 26 | 5 | 30 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 4 } | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Data Source: CPS Management Information System |
This data does not indicate the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the charged offence.
It is not possible to separately report the nature of, or type of exploitation carried out on victims of modern slavery or trafficking offences other than by manually examining case files at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions for offences against children have there been for Human Trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in each year since its enactment.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Crown Prosecution Service (‘CPS’) maintains a central record of the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced, including offences charged by way of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. This data may be further disaggregated by the child abuse case monitoring flag. The CPS definition of child abuse covers any case where the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offence and includes allegations or crimes perpetrated by both adults and under 18s.
Section 1 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 provides an offence of slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour; Section 2 provides for a single offence of human trafficking covering sexual and non-sexual exploitation; and, Section 4 provides that it is an offence to commit another offence with a view to committing a trafficking offence under Section 2.
Since the Act came into force and up to the end of March 2020, the number of Modern Slavery Act offences flagged as child abuse is as follows:
| 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 1 } | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 2 } | 1 | 21 | 26 | 5 | 30 |
Modern Slavery Act 2015 { 4 } | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Data Source: CPS Management Information System |
This data does not indicate the number of individual defendants prosecuted for these offences or the final outcome of the charged offence.
It is not possible to separately report the nature of, or type of exploitation carried out on victims of modern slavery or trafficking offences other than by manually examining case files at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jess Phillips (Labour - Birmingham, Yardley)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what training is available for Police and Crown Prosecution Service staff on the nature and enforcement of restraining orders.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
The CPS has bespoke e-learning training regarding restraining orders, which is available to all prosecutors through the Prosecution College. The training enables prosecutors to fully understand the principles and practical issues involved when an application is made to a court to put a restraining order in place for the protection of victims.
The CPS will always prosecute criminal breaches of restraining orders where the test set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors is met. Offending committed in breach of, or whilst subject to, a court order is likely to be seen as increasing the culpability of the suspect and, therefore, increasing the public interest in bringing a prosecution.
The College of Policing sets the standards for the police and the use of restraining orders is referred to in a number of areas across the College’s curriculum.