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date	24/02/2016
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, what steps the Government is taking to counter people trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	28270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling people trafficking and all forms of modern slavery. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 gives law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle modern slavery, ensures that perpetrators can receive suitably severe sentences up to life imprisonment, enhances support and protection for victims and places a duty on large businesses to report on what they are doing to stop modern slavery occurring in their global supply chains. We have successfully lobbied for the establishment of the first ever UN Sustainable Development Goal to end modern slavery and are working with a range of international partners to tackle slavery and its causes. We are also piloting a new approach to identifying and supporting potential victims of slavery through the National Referral Mechanism and we have appointed an Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner to spread best practice in the UK and overseas.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:26:20 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

454964

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were (a) granted and (b) refused on the basis of the results of the harm-benefit analysis carried out on those applications by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	28258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the response I previously provided to her question on 4 February 2016 (24508). The Home Office does not keep records of applications that have been rejected / refused or withdrawn at the concept or at the drafting stage.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:55:35 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

454242

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Ministerial Policy Advisors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) policy and (b) other responsibilities are of each special adviser in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	27955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Code of Conduct for Special Advisers sets out the role of special advisers and describes the range of activities they may undertake. Copies of the Code of Conduct are available in the Libraries of the House and on-line at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/468340/CODE_OF_CONDUCT_FOR_SPECIAL_ADVISERS_-_15_OCTOBER_2015_FINAL.pdf</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:17:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma