Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 40749 on Human Trafficking: Children, what steps she is taking to improve the accuracy of recording the number of child victims of human trafficking.

The Ministry of Justice publishes criminal court outcomes against offences as defined in legislation, including offences where the age of victims is recorded only if that is part of the specific offence wording.

The Department does not capture or hold the information on victim age within court record management system more generally, because there is no operational business need to do so.

Information on victim age may be held and recorded earlier in the criminal justice process by partners such as the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.