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Debate on bill on Friday, 5 February 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Anthony Steen. The answering member was Phil Woolas.

Anti-Slavery Day Bill

Anti-Slavery Day Bill second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Committee stage. Clauses 1-2 agreed to. Bill as amended reported. Third reading debate agreed to on question and passed.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
505 c536-73;505 c536-74 
Session
2009-10
Department
Home Office
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Third reading
Report stage
Second reading
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Anti-Slavery Day Bill.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Anthony Steen | 505 c536-45 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving m...
Anthony Steen | 505 c571 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his marathon speech, which was riveting. I think the whole House was engros...
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Phil Woolas | 505 c569-71 (Link to this contribution) I draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to the conjunction that I used: I referred to the granting of ...
Anthony Steen | 505 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain to the Minister why he is wrong. It is good that the Government have gone for the opt...
Phil Woolas | 505 c568 (Link to this contribution) That raises difficult areas of public policy that we all recognise in the debate between the desirab...
Anthony Steen | 505 c568 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that the Government have done a very good job with the police in making this police core...
Anthony Steen | 505 c566 (Link to this contribution) I think the Minister would like to know that the jury is out on the disbanding of the human traffick...
Phil Woolas | 505 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand that, and the hon. Gentleman is right to say that we should always have an open mind on...
Anthony Steen | 505 c565 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's comments are music to the ears of many of us. What the Government are doing is very g...
Phil Woolas | 505 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, as do the Government. I have mentioned the economic damage traffick...
Anthony Steen | 505 c562 (Link to this contribution) I assume from what the Minister is saying that he acknowledges that modern-day slavery crosses front...
Phil Woolas | 505 c562-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me answer that point very carefully. The answer is yes. I believe that we have seen a pendulum s...
Phil Woolas | 505 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point about parliamentary draftsmen. They are very helpful to Ministers ...
Phil Woolas | 505 c560-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not familiar with the specific figure, but my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the H...
Anthony Steen | 505 c560 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware—I was not aware of this until last week, when I met some police officers conce...
Damian Green | 505 c555-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has just broken the covenant whereby he was not going to ask for more public spending...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge | 505 c557 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, because I am anxious for this and the following business to be discussed. I pay tr...
Phil Woolas | 505 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) on bringing this Bill to the House as th...
Anthony Steen | 505 c558-9 (Link to this contribution) The issue is simple. If we stopped people in the street today and talked about human trafficking, a ...
Damian Green | 505 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for those remarks. Of course, the approach is not just cross-party, as...
Damian Green | 505 c555 (Link to this contribution) I know that I am slightly more enthusiastic about the UK Human Trafficking Centre than is my hon. Fr...
Anthony Steen | 505 c555 (Link to this contribution) I visited the UK Human Trafficking Centre with the Joint Committee on Human Rights. If the centre co...
Phil Woolas | 505 c554 (Link to this contribution) On the problems of Hillingdon, I have met the leadership of the council and its senior officers, and...
Damian Green | 505 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to try to establish moral distinctions between three particularly unpleasant crimes, b...
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor | 505 c551 (Link to this contribution) I greatly welcome the work of the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen). He has a long-established repu...
Anthony Steen | 505 c551 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for the generous things he has said; I am most grateful to him. The fact ...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c551 (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure what the hon. Gentleman has in mind, but I think I have made my point. In fact, ...
Anthony Steen | 505 c552 (Link to this contribution) I assure the House that no public expenditure whatever is intended. It will be up to organisations a...
Damian Green | 505 c552-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point. It is important to have a day devoted to increasing public knowledge...
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor | 505 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman intervened just as I was about to turn to the present. He made his point very cle...
Damian Green | 505 c552 (Link to this contribution) It is, indeed, a pleasure to rise in support of the Bill proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for T...
Anthony Steen | 505 c553 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the other items, arms trading and drug trafficking, do not involve hu...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c550 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am a sponsor of the hon. Gentleman's Bill and I do not particularly want it to founder. Howev...
Speaker | 505 c545 (Link to this contribution) Order. As it is on the hon. Gentleman's own admission that what he has just said was an aside, I hop...
Anthony Steen | 505 c545-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is wonderful how both our minds were working in the same way. I ca...
Speaker | 505 c547 (Link to this contribution) Order. That appears to be a form of product placement, so perhaps we should move on.
Anthony Steen | 505 c547-8 (Link to this contribution) I am on my last paragraph, so I thought that I might just get that in. By far the largest number of...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) on introducing his Bill. As he knows, I am one...
Anthony Steen | 505 c549 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that comment, so may I ask his advice? He is one of the spon...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c549 (Link to this contribution) That is a difficult issue, because it is important to ensure that Bills leave this House in as good ...
Anthony Steen | 505 c549 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it would be unfortunate if that particular point, important thoug...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) To that extent, I agree with the hon. Gentleman. That brings me to my second point, because I suppor...
Anthony Steen | 505 c550 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing between us; we are agreed on this. But there is a difference. We have a Holocaust m...
Anthony Steen | 505 c572-3;505 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) I accept that amendment in its entirety. Amendment 1 agreed to. Amendments made: 2, in Clause 1, p...
Phil Woolas | 505 c573;505 c574 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to be helpful—very briefly. At the beginning of my remarks today, I said that there was ...
Anthony Steen | 505 c573;505 c574 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I spoke for just 50 minutes on Second Read...
Anthony Steen | 505 c573;505 c574 (Link to this contribution) It was very good. However, I do not think that a Third Reading speech would endear me to the House, ...
Speaker | 505 c572 (Link to this contribution) Occupants of the Chair have deprecated proceeding at once from Second Reading into Committee without...
Phil Woolas | 505 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I spoke at length not because I was instructed to do so by the ...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c572;505 c573 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 1, page 5, leave out from 'that' to 'millions' in line 6.
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 505 c572;505 c573 (Link to this contribution) There are some amendments to the Bill. Amendment papers are available in the Vote Office and, for th...
Andrew Dismore | 505 c572;505 c573 (Link to this contribution) I shall not detain the Committee long, and I hope the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) will accept...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 505 c572;505 c573 (Link to this contribution) With this we may take the following: amendment 2, page 1, line 7, leave out 'modern-day'. Amendment...
Anthony Steen | 505 c551 (Link to this contribution) I have nothing against that, except I will not be here to see it happen. Bearing in mind the time an...
Subjects
Children Anniversaries Women Fraud Education Immigration controls Expenditure Drugs Human trafficking Forced labour Slavery Victim support schemes Refuges Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings Exploitation
Legislation
Anti-slavery Day Bill 2009-10
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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