Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
What steps he is taking to tackle modern slavery.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This Government is committed to ending modern slavery in the UK and abroad.
We’re transforming the law enforcement response, seeing more police operations than ever before; overhauling support for victims; and working with businesses to eradicate forced labour from our supply chains.
To ensure our response remains world-leading, we have commissioned an independent review of our Modern Slavery Act.
Asked by: Alex Burghart (Conservative - Brentwood and Ongar)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date she expects that the Government will have fulfilled its commitment to transfer 480 children under the Dubs scheme.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
We are fully committed to transferring 480 unaccompanied children from Europe under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A number of children have arrived from France under section 67 in recent weeks and transfers are ongoing.
We are working very closely with Member States, as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGO partners to identify and transfer children safely to the UK in line with each individual Member State’s national laws. More eligible children will be transferred from Europe in due course.