Speeches

Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-06-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of slavery have been reported in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

The table below shows the number of potential victims of human trafficking or modern slavery who were referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in the UK between 2011 and 2015.

The NRM is the UK’s identification and support mechanism for potential victims of modern slavery.

Year

Number of potential victims

2011

946

2012

1,186

2013

1,746

2014

2,340

2015

3,266

A breakdown of referrals is available from published NRM statistics on the National Crime Agency website and can be found here: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics