Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Debate between Gary Streeter and Jess Phillips(5 years, 4 months ago)
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Jess Phillips
I like that sentence, Sir Gary.
I thank everyone who spoke today. The strength of feeling in this House is clear: we wish to see the figure for people in our detention estate who have suffered any form of trafficking down to zero. Many of us wish to see the end of detention.
I am heartened by the Minister’s pilot projects. This system can be handled much better in the community with proper specialist partners. I hope we can go away with some sort of assurances that the Government can hear that the first thing we should do with anyone found in a brothel or clearly in a place of exploitation is care about them, not incarcerate them.
Question put and agreed to.
Resolved,
That this House has considered the immigration detention of survivors of trafficking and modern slavery.
Sir Gary Streeter (in the Chair)
Order. We can move straight on to our next debate as I see the protagonists are here. Please will those who are leaving kindly do so quietly and quickly? That would be much appreciated.