Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many calls the Metropolitan Police human trafficking hotline received from victims of human trafficking in each of the last three years; and what the annual cost of running the hotline is.

The table below shows the number of calls received by the Metropolitan Police
human trafficking hotline since it was set up in June 2011.

Year Number of calls
2014 29 (to 19 June)
2013 41
2012 52
2011 34 (June to December)

The freephone hotline number (0800 783 2589) is funded by Stop The Traffik and
therefore has no cost to the Metropolitan Police Service other than the £15 per
month line rental.