Home Office written question – answered am ar 27 Chwefror 2024.
Matthew Offord
Ceidwadwyr, Hendon
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to tackle modern slavery in Hendon Constituency in the last 12 months.
Laura Farris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice and Home Office)
The UK response is underpinned by the Modern Slavery Strategy 2014 and the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which has given law enforcement agencies the tools to tackle modern slavery, including maximum life sentences for perpetrators and enhanced protection for victims.
In addition to core police funding, since 2016 we have invested £17.8 million in the Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime Unit - a specialist police unit which supports all police forces in England and Wales, including the Metropolitan Police Service, to improve their response to modern slavery by increasing forces’ capability to identify and prosecute modern slavery crimes.
The Metropolitan Police Service also operates a dedicated Modern Slavery and Child Exploitation Team staffed by specialist officers, which plays a vital role in tackling modern slavery across London.
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