Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

January 1, 2023 admin 2016, Parliamentary Question, Paul Blomfield

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which (a) towns, (b) cities and (c) regions were the recorded locations of exploitation of potential victims of human trafficking referred to the UK National Referral Mechanism in 2014.

Karen Bradley

The table below shows the breakdown of the claimed location of exploitation for the 2,340 potential victims referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in 2014. The geographical location of exploitation is recorded by police force area only, for reporting and statistical purposes.

YEAR	2014

Police for area of exploitation (claimed)	Total
Avon & Somerset	16
Bedfordshire	12
Cambridgeshire	31
Cheshire	6
Cleveland	8
Derbyshire	6
Devon & Cornwall	8
Dorset	10
Durham	3
Dyfed-Powys	2
Essex	12
Gloucestershire	2
GMP	38
Gwent	5
Hampshire	21
Hertfordshire	4
Humberside	2
Kent	26
Lancashire	2
Leicestershire	7
Lincolnshire	8
Merseyside	7
Metropolitan	232
Multiple locations	83
Norfolk	7
North Yorkshire	13
Northamptonshire	2
Northumbria	12
Nottinghamshire	14
Police Scotland	44
PSNI	30
South Wales	7
South Yorkshire	14
Staffordshire	3
Suffolk	3
Surrey	1
Sussex	8
Thames Valley	17
Warwickshire	4
West Mercia	5
West Midlands	51
West Yorkshire	87
Wiltshire	19
Overseas	432
Unknown / Not recorded*	1016
Total	2340

* “Unknown/not-recorded” cases are ones where: • potential victims did not know the location of exploitation; and / or

• potential victims have been moved with the intention to exploit but have been identified before an act of exploitation has taken place; and / or

• frontline workers did not accurately record this data when initial referrals were made

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