Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what preparations her Department is making for the coordination of efforts to tackle human trafficking with EU member states after the UK leaves the EU.

The UK will in due course be leaving the EU. Co-operation with our EU and global allies will continue on the important issue of tackling modern slavery after our exit. We are determined to do whatever is necessary to turn the tide on perpetrators as well as ensure victims are appropriately supported. It would be wrong to set out unilateral positions on specific measures in advance of negotiations.

During the period of the negotiations to exit the EU, the UK remains a full member of the EU and we will continue our work with EU partners to tackle modern slavery including through the EU Directive on Trafficking of Human Beings 2011.