Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) children and (b) adults referred to the National Referral Mechanism are currently waiting for a (a) reasonable grounds and (b) conclusive grounds decision.

Data on the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) are published regularly by the National Crime Agency, available via the following link:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics The 2017 Annual Report of NRM statistics includes data on the outcomes of NRM decisions.