Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of 26 October 2017, Official Report, column 512, when the Government plans officially to adopt the Human Trafficking Foundation's trafficking survivor care standards as a minimum standard for victim support.

On 26 October 2017 the Government announced its plans for reform of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) confirming the Government’s commitment to markedly improving the identification of, and support provided to, victims of modern slavery. This includes incorporating the Human Trafficking Foundation Trafficking Survivor Care Standards as a minimum standard of victim support that will be incorporated into in all future Government adult victim support contracts.

Detailed implementation plans for the whole reform programme are currently being developed, and further information will be announced in due course.