Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were arrested on immigration offences and later reclassified as potential victims of modern slavery in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016, (d) 2017 and (e) 2018.
The information requested is not held in a reportable format.
Statistics available on the National Crime Agency website provides break-downs for the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) by referral agency. Volumes for referrals for Immigration Enforcement (IE) and UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) by year to the NRM are as follows: 2014 - 937 (IE/UKVI combined), 2015 - 1518 (IE/UKVI combined), 2016 374, 2017 – 124, and 2018 – 338