Diana Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2016-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who passed through the National Referral Mechanism as victims of modern slavery and trafficking were granted discretionary leave to remain in the UK in order to assist in police investigations and prosecutions in each fiscal year since 2009-10.
Sarah Newton
Our records indicate that the number of individuals who received a positive conclusive grounds decision from the National Referral Mechanism (see Note 1) who were granted discretionary leave to remain in the UK with the requirement that they assist the police in their investigations (see Note 2) were as shown in Table 1 below.
Table 1 – Number of individuals granted discretionary leave to remain in the UK with the requirement that they assist the police in their investigations, following a positive conclusive grounds outcome from the National Referral Mechanism.
|
Referral Year |
Number granted discretionary leave to remain in the UK with the requirement that they assist the police in their investigations |
|
2009/2010 |
20 |
|
2010/2011 |
30 |
|
2011/2012 |
28 |
|
2012/2013 |
57 |
|
2013/2014 |
31 |
|
2014/2015 |
73 |
|
2015/2016 |
80 |
1. The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the process by which people who may have been victims of modern slavery are identified, referred, assessed and supported in the United Kingdom. (“Modern slavery” is a term that covers slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking.) The initial referral goes through a two stage process: a reasonable grounds stage and then, for those with a positive reasonable grounds outcome (where it is considered that the person is a potential victim of trafficking/slavery), a conclusive grounds stage (where the person is considered to be a confirmed victim of trafficking/slavery).
2. The data in the table shows those with a positive conclusive grounds outcome only with a particular outcome type ("VOT DL Granted"), identifying them as someone granted discretionary leave to remain in the UK with the requirement that they assist the police in their investigations.
3. Data extracted on 01 September 2016.
4. Data is broken down into Financial Years, showing the year the referral was made.
5. The data has been extracted from the Case Immigration Database.
6. These statistics have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.
