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<p>The Government does not set a specific budget for tackling different crime types.
As the Government’s Modern Slavery Strategy sets out, there are a very wide range
of Government-funded organisations with a key role to play in tackling modern slavery
and human trafficking. It is not possible to identify the total investment in this
activity.</p><p>Modern slavery is a hidden crime and a wide range of work is undertaken
to not only tackle this crime through law enforcement organisations, but to also highlight
it and raise public awareness. Bringing this complex crime into the open, will in
turn help us stamp it out more effectively. In addition, the Government has introduced
a new statutory role, the Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, responsible for improving
awareness and detection by law enforcement, as well as working with partners to increase
the number of successful prosecutions of the perpetrators of modern slavery. Kevin
Hyland was appointed as the designate Commissioner in November 2014.</p><p>Conviction
figures for 2014 have yet to be published. In 2013, there were 68 convictions on an
all offence basis. These offences were: trafficking for sexual exploitation; trafficking
for non-sexual exploitation; and slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour.
In addition, individuals will have been convicted for conspiracy for conduct relating
to modern slavery and trafficking offences, but the conviction data available cannot
be disaggregated in this way.</p><p> </p>
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