Diana Johnson MP, Labour’s Shadow Crime and Security Minister, responding to the cross-party Joint Committee report on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill, said:

“Labour has offered the government our full support in introducing a Human Trafficking Bill, but it has to be a Bill that works. The Home Secretary’s Draft Bill was too much about headline messages and too little about support for victims. This report shows how to make the Bill work and the Home Secretary needs to implement its recommendations. If she refuses we will table them as amendments. 

“In particular the Home Secretary needs to follow the Committee’s advice and reverse, immediately, her visa changes for domestic workers. This group were already extremely vulnerable and this report confirms that there is now extensive evidence that the changes the Home Secretary introduced have led to an increase in abuse and exploitation.“