Asked by: Lord Garnier (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, following their report Security Industry Authority: triennial review 2016 to 2017, published on 7 June 2018, when they intend to introduce the regulation and licensing of private investigators.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The Government is committed to ensuring the integrity of the private security industry, including private investigators and is considering the Review and its recommendations carefully. The Government’s final response will be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Garnier (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to encourage the seizure of assets of human traffickers at the point of arrest, rather than conviction.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Modern Slavery taskforce, chaired by the Prime Minister, is coordinating activity across law enforcement agencies to ensure that powers available to disrupt, deter and prevent human trafficking are used to best effect.
This includes powers under Section 12 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to detain vehicles, ships and aircraft from those arrested on suspicion of human trafficking offences and wider powers available under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
Asked by: Lord Garnier (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people convicted of human trafficking in the UK who returned to their country of origin to serve their sentence have had their assets (a) in the UK or (b) overseas seized to compensate (i) victims of trafficking, (ii) police forces and (iii) HM Treasury; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Data on the number of convicted human traffickers returned to their countries of origin to serve the sentence and whose assets (whether in the UK or overseas) have also been seized to compensate victims, police forces and HM Treasury is not collated centrally.