The scale of money laundering, fraud and other economic crime in the UK, is thought to run to tens or hundreds of billions of pounds per year. In December 2019 the Treasury Committee found various regulatory and legislative failings in the way in which these crimes were being tackled in the UK. It urged the Government to make improvements to the supervisory system and to introduce new powers to combat economic crime. The Government agrees about the need to tackle these crimes. It set out its overall approach in its July 2019 Economic Crime Plan. The Plan covers the years 2019-2022 and draws together all the work being conducted by the public and private sector. The Royal United Services Institute said that as at September 2020, 23% of actions in the plan had been completed, 59% were in progress, 9% were overdue, 6% of actions either had no due date or had been paused.
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Implementation of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (154 KB, PDF)
The Government has described modern slavery as a “brutal form of organised crime in which people are treated as commodities and exploited for criminal gain”, which “takes a number of forms, including sexual exploitation, forced labour and domestic servitude”. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 received royal assent on 26 March 2015. Since the Act, the Government commissioned an independent review of the Act a year after it came into force and set up a Modern Slavery Taskforce. A report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services in October 2017 expressed concerns about law enforcement investigations of potential victims.
Further information
Modern Slavery Act 2015: Recent Developments, Commons Library Briefing Paper 7656, 25 October 2017
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Implementation of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (154 KB, PDF)
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