Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of slavery have been reported in each of the last five years.

The table below shows the number of potential victims of human trafficking or modern slavery who were referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in the UK between 2011 and 2015.

The NRM is the UK’s identification and support mechanism for potential victims of modern slavery.

A breakdown of referrals is available from published NRM statistics on the National Crime Agency website and can be found here: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics