Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who sought asylum in Northern Ireland were (a) of Eritrean nationality and (b) referred to the national referral mechanism as potential victims of trafficking in the latest period for which data is available.

The Illegal Migration publishes statistics published by the Home Office can be found here: Statistics relating to the Illegal Migration Act - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Home Office publishes statistics regarding asylum, which can be found here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics

The Home Office does not publish data on the specific information you have requested.