Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 40
40
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Resourcing challenges hinder essential financial investigations against human traffickers.
Conclusion
Financial investigations are essential to tackling organised crime and traffickers, particularly for evidence-led prosecutions. However, we heard that these specialists can be hard to resource.
Government Response Summary
The government's response focuses on its modern slavery strategy and reporting, but does not directly address the committee's conclusion regarding the essential role of financial investigations and the difficulty in resourcing specialists.
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Government Response
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HM Government
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17. We share the Committee’s focus on the importance of a strategy to guide work tackling this crime. As set out in the introduction, the UK’s response to modern slavery is underpinned by the Modern Slavery Strategy 2014 as well as the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and subsequent legislation. 18. This year the Government will resume publication of an Annual Report on Modern Slavery to set out our strategic approach to tackling modern slavery, and ensure the work being done to tackle this crime is shared and monitored. We will continue to work closely with stakeholders to inform our approach to tackling all forms of exploitation, including through Modern Slavery Engagement Forums (MSEFs). The Government will also consider delivering a new modern slavery strategy.