Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of offences in each year since the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act.

The Ministry of Justice has published information for prosecutions and convictions for ‘Modern Slavery offences’ up to 2019, found in the ‘Outcomes by offence tool’ here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888664/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2019.xlsx

Information on eligible companies that fail to publish a statement of compliance in the Transparency in Supply Chains as sought by the Modern Slavery Act 2015 that were subsequently prosecuted/convicted/sentenced is not held in the court proceedings database so these cases cannot be separately identified.