§ Lord Hyltonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether their proposed Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill will create an offence of trafficking for sexual exploitation, and also for labour exploitation, as promised by Lord Davies of Oldham during the debate on trafficking in human beings (HL Deb, 13 March, col. 910.) [HL3703]
§ The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Rooker)The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill, which includes a new offence of trafficking for the purposes of prostitution, was introduced on Friday 12 April 2002.
As my noble friend Lord Davies of Oldham made clear in the debate, this new offence will close the current loophole that allows foreign women to be trafficked into and out of the UK for prostitution. We intend to create new wide-ranging offences of trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation when parliamentary time permits.