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Joint Committee on the draft Modern Slavery Bill - Publications

Inquiry by the Draft Modern Slavery Bill (Joint Committee), 19 December 2013 to 9 June 2014. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 21 January 2014: The Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group: Aidan McQuade, Director, Anti-Slavery International, Chloe Setter, Head of Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns (Child Trafficking), ECPAT UK, Dorcas Erskine, National Co-ordinator, POPPY Project, Kate Roberts, Community Advocate, Kalayaan, and David Rhys Jones, Helen Bamber Foundation
  • 28 January 2014: Julia Harris, Managing Director, The Childcare Recruitment Company Ltd, and Chris Randall, Solicitor, Bates Wells Braithwaite; Professor Bridget Anderson, Migration and Citizenship, COMPAS, Dr Virginia Mantouvalou, Reader in Human Rights and Labour Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Human Rights, University College London, Kate Roberts, Community Advocate, Kalayaan, and Marissa Begonia, Coordinator, Justice for Domestic Workers.
  • 28 January 2014: Dr Maggie Atkinson, Children's Commissioner, Office of the Children's Commissioner; and AIRE Centre
  • 30 January 2014: Riel Karmy-Jones, Barrister, Red Lion Chambers; Professor Jean Allain, School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast.
  • 4 February 2014: Paul Broadbent and Margaret McKinley, Gangmasters Licensing Authority and Caroline Robinson, Focus on Labour Exploitation.
  • 4 February 2014: Dr Sam Scott, Senior Lecturer, Human Geography, University of Gloucestershire and coordinator of the Forced Labour Monitoring Group; David Camp, Association of Labour Providers, Catherine Pazderka, British Retail Consortium, and Dr Karen Jochelson, Equality and Human Rights Commission.
  • 6 February 2014: Kevin Green, Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and Andrew Coulcher, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
  • 6 February 2014: David Arkless, Arklight Consulting Ltd, and Matt Crossman, Rathbone Investment Management; and Dr Alex Balch, Politics Department, University of Liverpool.
  • 11 February 2014: Professor Lucia Zedner and Professor Liora Lazarus, Faculty of Law, Oxford University; Rachel Robinson Liberty (at 10.45 am); Richard Monkhouse Magistrates’ Association (at 11.15 am).
  • 25 February 2014: Dr Dan Boucher, Christian Action Research and Education, Ilona Pinter, Children's Society and Refugee Children's Consortium, Alison Worsley, Barnados, Mike Dottridge; and Catriona MacSween, Aberlour and Graham O’Neill, Scottish Refugee Council (at 11.00 am).
  • 25 February 2014: Detective Chief Inspector Nicholas Sumner, and Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland, Human Trafficking Unit, Metropolitan Police Service, Detective Inspector Keith Roberts, Kent Police, Alan Hardwick, Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire, and Chief Inspector Mike Winters, Area Commander, Cambridgeshire Police; Nick Hunt, Director of Strategy and Policy, Crown Prosecution Service (at 3.00 pm); Rt Hon the Lord Judge (at 3.30 pm); and Caroline Haughey, Criminal Barrister, Furnival Chambers (at 4.00 pm).
  • 26 February 2014: Luis CdeBaca, United States Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
  • 27 February 2014: Professor Kevin Bales, Contemporary Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, and Klara Skrivankova, Trafficking Programme Coordinator, Anti-Slavery International.
  • 27 February 2014: Andrew Forrest, Walk Free (via video conference); Greg McGill, Head of Organised Crime, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Liam Vernon, Head of UKHTC, National Crime Agency, Steve Wilkinson, Head of Proceeds of Crime, National Crime Agency, Ian Davidson, Police Service, Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, Home Office (at 10:15); Myria Vassiliadou, EU anti-Trafficking Coordinator, European Commission (at 11:15).
  • 4 March 2014: Jenny Marra MSP, Scottish Parliament, Joyce Watson AM, Welsh Assembly, and Lord Morrow of Clogher Valley, Northern Ireland Assembly; David Ford, Minister for Justice, Northern Ireland Department of Justice, Simon Rogers, Deputy Director Protection and Organised Crime Division, Northern Ireland Department of Justice (at 3.15 pm).
  • 4 March 2014: Chloe Setter, Head of Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns (Child trafficking), ECPAT UK, and Philip Ishola, Director, Counter Human Trafficking Bureau; Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children (at 11.00 am).
  • 6 March 2014: David Anderson QC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Brick Court Chambers, and John Vine CBE QPM, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration; Nadine Finch, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, and Chief Inspector Colin Carswell, Metropolitan Police (at 2.45 pm); Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive, Cafcass, and Andrew Webb, President The Association of Directors of Children's Services Ltd (at 3.15 pm).
  • 6 March 2014: Eva Biaudet, Finnish Ombudsman (via video conference).
  • 11 March 2014: Caroline Young, Deputy Director, and Liam Vernon, Head of the UK Human Trafficking Centre, National Crime Agency Organised Crime Command, Sarah Rapson, Director General, and Glyn Williams, Director, Asylum, UK Visas and Immigration; Zofia Duszynska, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association Executive Committee, Shauna Gillan, Legal Officer, Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (at 3.00 pm).
  • 11 March 2014: Paul Lister, Director of Legal Services and Company Secretary of Associated British Foods plc, Primark, Giles Bolton, Ethical Trading Director, Tesco, and Judith Batchelar, Director of Brand, Sainsbury's
  • 12 March 2014: Karen Bradley MP, Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime, Home Office