Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who is invited to her Department's Modern Slavery Operation meetings; what the purpose of those meetings is; when the last such meeting was; and if she will place in the Library a copy of the minutes of that meeting.

The Modern Slavery Operational Leads meeting is held monthly and is chaired by myself.
The purpose of the meeting is to engage with law enforcement agencies to ensurethat effective investigations are carried out which can lead to successful prosecutionsand it is an opportunity for law enforcement agencies to update the Home Office on recent operations to tackle modern slavery.

The following organisations are invited to attend the meeting:
• Home Office officials including from the Modern Slavery Unit, UK Border
Force, Immigration Enforcement, and Strategy & Delivery Unit;
• Cabinet Office officials;
• College of Policing;
• Crown Prosecution Service;
• Gangmasters Licensing Authority;
• GCHQ;
• HMRC officials;
• Metropolitan Police Service – Human Trafficking and Kidnap Unit;
• National Crime Agency;
• National Policing Lead for Modern Slavery.

The most recent meeting took place on 16 October, and the previous meeting was on 8 September. Due to the sensitive nature of the discussions, copies of the minutes will not be published.