Amendments to the Immigration and Asylum Bill

The Immigration and Asylum Bill will significantly weaken the UK’s response to trafficking and modern slavery. It will deny access to identification, protection, support and recovery to many survivors. This approach punishes survivors, will embolden traffickers and in doing so enable exploitation to thrive, harming individuals, communities and our economy.

This Bill continues a destructive approach of prioritising an immigration control agenda over safeguarding survivors of a serious crime. The government has used hostile and unevidenced narratives of system “misuse” and misleading language of “last-minute modern slavery claims” to ‘justify’ weakening modern slavery protections. This creates distrust and scepticism that puts survivors at risk, drives this crime underground and emboldens traffickers. 

This short briefing focuses on identification and support of victims and proposes amendments to such clauses. For long-form briefings on each clause, please click the hyperlinks beside each amendment.