Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which (a) towns, (b) cities and (c) regions were the recorded locations of exploitation of potential victims of human trafficking referred to the UK National Referral Mechanism in 2014.

The table below shows the breakdown of the claimed location of exploitation for the 2,340 potential victims referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in 2014. The geographical location of exploitation is recorded by police force area only, for reporting and statistical purposes.

* “Unknown/not-recorded” cases are ones where: • potential victims did not know the location of exploitation; and / or

• potential victims have been moved with the intention to exploit but have been identified before an act of exploitation has taken place; and / or

• frontline workers did not accurately record this data when initial referrals were made