Anthony Steen, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficking of Woman and Children for the Parliament of the United Kingdom argued that while there was enormous interest in human trafficking few people had actually met a trafficked person. There were too many international conferences on the subject, but insufficient concerted action to interdict it. He said that it was estimated that 2 million people are trafficked at any time, but only 22 000 victims have been identified. He too criticized the ineffectiveness of merely passing laws. Laws needed to be effectively implemented and his group used parliamentary questions to prompt the Home Secretary and other cabinet members into more effective action. He concluded with a thought provoking statement that there are now more people in bondage than were enslaved in the 300 years of the transatlantic slave trade.