Slavery
(asked on 28th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many times the defence set out in section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 has been applied.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 12th April 2018
Data on the number and type of cases where the statutory defence set out in section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 has been applied are not collated centrally.
The statutory defence could arise in any category of offence and may be a consideration in the decision as to whether to charge an individual in circumstances where the defence could apply.