National Crime Agency: Finance

(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to allocate addition resources to the National Crime Agency to tackle (a) county lines gangs, (b) modern slavery and (c) people trafficking; and what progress she has made on the implementation of the recommendations of the Independent review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, published in September 2018.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 3rd February 2020

The National Crime Agency (NCA) leads the UK’s whole-system response to serious and organised crime, including modern slavery and human trafficking. The NCA sets out its resourcing and operational priorities for the year ahead in its Annual Plan. The national response to county lines is jointly led by the NCA and police through the National County Lines Coordination Centre launched in September 2018. On 17 January, the Home Secretary announced uplifted £20m targeted investment to tackle county lines activity in 2020/21, which will include support for an expanded Centre. The Chancellor and Home Secretary announced a formal review of SOC as part of the 2019 Spending Round. The Review is assessing the SOC system, its available powers, structure and its funding arrangements.

On 9 July 2019, the Government published its response to the Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act on and accepted majority of the recommendations. On the same day, the Home Office launched a public consultation to gather views on proposals to strengthen the transparency in supply chains provisions at section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act. The Home Office is currently analysing the responses received. In addition, the UK Government has now appointed an HMG Modern Slavery and Migration envoy, an Ambassador based in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, who will represent HMG interests on modern slavery.

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