James Cartlidge – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by James Cartlidge on 2016-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle people trafficking.

Karen Bradley

This Government is committed to stamping out Modern Slavery, including human trafficking. Our Modern slavery Act gives law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle this heinous crime, places a duty on large businesses to report on their steps to prevent modern slavery in their global supply chains, and ensures that perpetrators can receive suitably severe sentences of up to life imprisonment.