Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many modern slavery operations were led by Immigration Enforcement Crime teams in each of the past three years.

The number of operations with the primary crime type was marked as modern slavery was as follows:

2015/16: 31

2016/17: 42

2017/18: 24

This data has been derived from local management information and is therefore subject to change.