<p>Modern Slavery</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:41 pm on 20 September 2017.

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Photo of Carl Sargeant Carl Sargeant Labour 2:41, 20 September 2017

Well, I can’t think of a word that the Member uttered there that I agree with him on. The fact of the matter is that this hasn’t been a hidden crime—slavery has been around for hundreds of years, and it was the British empire that started a lot of this off in the first place, and we should be the ones now stopping the whole issue of this. That’s why we have appointed an anti-slavery co-ordinator. I don’t think that mass immigration, as the Member talked about, has anything to do with the slavery we see today. In fact, I don’t even acknowledge the Member’s views in the fact that we have uncontrolled mass immigration; the Member is wrong to suggest that.