Under cover of a letter dated 18 December 2007 from Vernon Coaker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, we received the Government's Response to our Twenty-first Report of Session 2006-07, Human Trafficking: Update (HL Paper 179, HC 1056). We publish the Minister's letter and the Government Response as an Appendix to this Report. We will comment as appropriate on this Response in future Reports which we publish dealing with human trafficking.