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	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many confiscation orders were imposed by the CPS on individuals convicted of offences related to human trafficking in each of the last five years; what the size of these orders was; and how much has been recovered under such orders.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	210496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to fighting human trafficking. Over £5.5 million has been recovered from those convicted of human trafficking offences in the last five years. Full available details are shown in the following table. <br /><br />A human trafficker may, as an alternative, be charged and prosecuted for a different offence, such as prostitution or money laundering, which could incur a confiscation order. But this would not be recorded as a trafficking offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/10/2014 16:18:51 question first ministerially corrected 03/11/2014 17:22:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name 2014_10 HT PQ Thornberry table.docx title Table 1 - human trafficking previous answer version 24409 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

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	registered interest
	date	30/04/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with which countries the UK has asset sharing agreements for the purposes of freezing, confiscating and repatriating the proceeds of crime; and how many such agreements have been reached since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	197341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>he UK is party to a number of multilateral international agreements that <br>contain asset recovery and asset sharing provisions. These include the Council <br>of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the <br>Proceeds from Crime, the UN Convention Against Corruption and the UN Convention <br>Against Transnational Organised Crime. The UK does not require a formal <br>international agreement to be able to cooperate with another country in respect <br>of freezing, confiscating and sharing or repatriating the proceeds of crime but <br>does have 37 bilateral mutual legal assistance agreements with other countries <br>including such provisions. These are -</p><p> </p><p>1. Algeria<br>2. Antigua and Barbuda<br>3. Argentina<br>4. Australia<br>5. Bahamas<br>6. Bahrain<br>7. Barbados<br>8. Brazil<br>9. Canada<br>10. Chile<br>11. Colombia<br>12. Ecuador<br>13. Grenada<br>14. Guyana<br>15. Hong Kong SAR<br>16. India<br>17. Ireland<br>18. Italy<br>19. Jordan<br>20. Libya<br>21. Malaysia<br>22. Mexico<br>23. Netherlands<br>24. Nigeria<br>25. Panama<br>26. Paraguay<br>27. Philippines<br>28. Romania<br>29. Saudi Arabia<br>30. Spain<br>31. Sweden<br>32. Thailand<br>33. UAE<br>34. Ukraine<br>35. Uruguay<br>36. USA<br>37. Vietnam</p><p> </p><p>The agreements with Jordan and Malaysia have been concluded since 2010.<br><br>There are a further six bilateral agreements limited to the issue of asset <br>sharing. These are -</p><p> </p><p>1. Canada<br>2. Jersey<br>3. Hong Kong SAR<br>4. Ireland<br>5. Jamaica <br>6. Netherlands<br><br>These were all concluded prior to 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 8358 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry