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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 765 Thursday No. 50 15 October 2015 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDER OF BUSINESS Introductions: Lord Gilbert of Panteg and Baroness Mone........................................313 Questions Trafficking: Children .....................................................................................................313 Social Care ....................................................................................................................315 Air Quality: London.....................................................................................................318 Immigration....................................................................................................................321 Apprenticeships Motion to Take Note....................................................................................................323 Redcar Steel Statement........................................................................................................................360 Affordable Housing in Rural Communities Question for Short Debate............................................................................................364 Sport Motion to Take Note....................................................................................................379 Shared Spaces Question for Short Debate ..............................................................................................415 £4·00 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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The first time a Member speaks to a new piece of parliamentary business, the following abbreviations are used to show their party affiliation: Abbreviation Party/Group CB Cross Bench Con Conservative DUP Democratic Unionist Party GP Green Party Ind Lab Independent Labour Ind LD Independent Liberal Democrat Ind SD Independent Social Democrat Ind UU Independent Ulster Unionist Lab Labour LD Liberal Democrat LD Ind Liberal Democrat Independent Non-afl Non-affiliated PC Plaid Cymru UKIP UK Independence Party UUP Ulster Unionist Party No party affiliation is given for Members serving the House in a formal capacity, the Lords spiritual, Members on leave of absence or Members who are otherwise disqualified from sitting in the House. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2015, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 313 Introduction: Lord Gilbert of Panteg[15 OCTOBER 2015] Trafficking: Children 314 Lord Bates: The noble Baroness makes a very House of Lords interesting point and I will look at this. It is of course something that the Crown Prosecution Service will Thursday, 15 October 2015. produce guidance about, working with the police forces. Also, the national policing lead, Shaun Sawyer, is 11 am leading the Modern Slavery Threat Group, which will monitor this very carefully indeed. We are conscious Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of London. that we need to get to grips with this problem. If in the process of this law—it is just coming into being, with the offences having been introduced on 31 July—that Introduction: Lord Gilbert of Panteg proves to be helpful, I am sure that it is something that we would look at very carefully. I am happy to continue 11.12 am the discussion with the noble Baroness. Stephen Gilbert Esq, having been created Baron Gilbert Baroness Hamwee (LD): My Lords, what will be the of Panteg, of Panteg in the County of Monmouthshire, impact of reductions in police budgets on training of was introduced and took the oath, supported by Lord police officers to identify victims—I am sure that the Taylor of Holbeach and Lord Cooper of Windrush, and Minister will agree that that needs a degree of training signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct. and skills—and to question victims in the most supportive and effective way? Introduction: Baroness Mone Lord Bates: The question of police funding will obviously be for the spending review on 25 November. 11.18 am There is a change to the formula there. We have made it very clear that this is a high priority. That is why the Michelle Georgina Mone, having been created Baroness national policing lead is taking such a strong role on Mone, of Mayfair, in the City of Westminster, was this. Significant amounts of training are already being introduced and took the oath, supported by Baroness done through the Crown Prosecution Service, but we Morris of Bolton and Lord Freud, and signed an undertaking will continue to keep that under review. to abide by the Code of Conduct. Earl Attlee (Con): My Lords, what progress are we Trafficking: Children making in dealing with the problem of vulnerable Question children being referred into the care of a local authority but subsequently getting lost? 11.22 am Lord Bates: We are looking at a number of issues, Asked by Baroness Doocey particularly with child trafficking advocates. The care of children, under the 1989 Act, continues to be at a To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there very high level. We are looking at whether the appointment has been an increase in the number of cases of child of child trafficking advocates alongside each child, to trafficking reported since the Modern Slavery Act help them navigate their way through the many different 2015 was passed. services and the many situations they face, would help tackle the problem referred to by my noble friend. The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Bates) (Con): My Lords, the Modern Slavery Act received Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Lab): Further Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. The first package of to the very important point made by the noble Baroness, measures was implemented on 31 July 2015. The number Lady Doocey, in her supplementary question, surely of children referred into the national referral mechanism Ministers should insist, now, that statistics on children has increased year on year, but it is too early to tell and adults should be separated. The noble Baroness whether there has been an increase in the number of made an enormously telling point—of which I was child trafficking cases reported to the NRM since the ignorant—and I hope that the Minister can give her a Modern Slavery Act was passed. positive assurance about it. Baroness Doocey (LD): I thank the Minister for Lord Bates: I will certainly try to go further. The that response. I should like to ask about the Home crime statistics, which were published this morning at Office counting rules used by the police to record 9.30 am, contain a revision to the way in which crime crime statistics, which has been recently updated to is reported and gives new categories, such as fraud and take account of the Modern Slavery Act. Will he cybercrime. I simply use this example to say that the please explain why there is no specific category to Government are not immune to the argument that the record child exploitation cases, such as domestic servitude? nature of crime is changing and therefore how we Instead, these crimes against adults and children are report it ought to change too. In consultation with the lumped together, which will obscure the recording, national policing lead and, crucially, with the Independent investigation and monitoring of these heinous crimes Anti-slavery Commissioner, who also produced his against children. Surely this is not the way the Modern strategy today, we will look at this very carefully and Slavery Act was supposed to work. keep it under review. 315 Trafficking: Children[LORDS] Social Care 316 Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB): Will the Minister say The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department when the results of the pilot project in relation to the of Health (Lord Prior of Brampton) (Con): My Lords, child advocates will be available? the Government have made the Care Quality Commission’s regulation and inspection regime much tougher to Lord Bates: We have had trials in 23 local authorities, ensurethatpeoplereceivesafe,high-qualityandcompassionate as the noble and learned Baroness, who has done so care. The CQC’s report, The State of Health and Adult much work in this area, knows. They are now being Social Care in England, published today, details how reviewed by the University of Bedfordshire and we well adult social care is performing overall in respect of expect to receive a report shortly. The full details of quality. The
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