Thirteen instances of bonded or forced labour; 28 examples of illegal employment of children and young workers; 40 cases of illegal deductions from pay; 34 breaches of the law on the status of foreign workers; and any number of the usual abuses over excessive hours. These bald statistics [come] from a new audit of 164 gangmasters who provide casual labour to the food and farming industry in Britain... Surely no one would want to block the legislation [addressing these issues or]...to frame the new law in such a way that the majority of places where these abuses occur are removed from its provisions? Yet that is what is being discussed this week in Whitehall.