Martyn Day – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Martyn Day on 2016-09-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people in the UK who have been trafficked.
Sarah Newton
The Home Office and Ministry of Justice jointly fund the Adult Victims of Modern Slavery Care and Coordination Contract in England and Wales. Since July 2011, The Salvation Army has been delivering this service. The total Government funding over this period has been:
|
Year |
Funding |
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2011-2012 |
|
|
(July-June) |
£2.3 million |
|
2012-2013 |
|
|
(Jul-Jun) |
£3.8 million |
|
2013-2014 |
|
|
(July-June) |
£3.9 million |
|
2014-2015 |
|
|
(July -March) |
£4 million |
|
2015-2016 |
|
|
(April -March) |
£9 million |
The Home Office estimates that in 2013 there were between 10,000 and 13,000 potential victims of modern slavery in the UK.
In 2015 there were 3,266 of victims of human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) – the UK’s framework for referring and supporting victims of human trafficking and modern slavery.
In addition, 427 potential victims of modern slavery were identified in England and Wales via the “duty to notify” requirement which requires specified public bodies to report to the Government all potential adult victims of modern slavery encountered in England and Wales who do not wish to be referred to the NRM. Similar provisions will shortly be in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
