Slavery: Victims
Commons · Question 25230 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Sarah Champion
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17817 on Slavery: Victims, whether all victims of modern slavery will be covered by the duty.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 29 Jan 2025
The duty to collaborate (“the Duty”) (sections 13-14 of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024) will require collaboration in relation to the commissioning of services for victims of modern slavery where the crime amounts to serious violence. Section 13(8) of...