Mark Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Field on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions for human trafficking resulted in a conviction between 1 August 2015 and 1 January 2016; and how many orders made for victim compensation as a result of such convictions resulted in payments (a) by convicted traffickers and (b) at a cost to the public purse.

Mike Penning

Statistics for prosecutions and convictions for 2015, including those for offences defined as human trafficking, are planned for publication in May 2016.

Overall court proceedings data for offences defined as human trafficking in England and Wales from 2004 to 2014 are published here.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority cannot provide data on the compensation it has awarded to victims of a particular crime type. This is because it awards compensation in line with the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme tariff of injuries rather than the type of incident that led to those injuries.

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