Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an estimate of the number of cases of human trafficking in Nigeria in the most recent period for which data is available.

The UK Government does not make its own estimate of the prevalence of human trafficking in other countries. Instead we draw on data gathered by national governments, UN agencies and international civil society organisations better placed to gather this information. For example, we know that the International Organisation for Migration (https://www.iom.int/) has helped to repatriate over 21,000 Nigerian trafficking victims, mainly from Libya, since 2017.

The UK supports the Nigerian Government, through our Security and Defence Partnership, to respond to serious and organised crime and human trafficking.