Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people that have been trafficked to the UK to have their organs harvested in each of the last five years.

Trafficking to or within the UK for organ harvesting is a hidden crime and so its prevalence can only be roughly estimated. The National Crime Agency produces annual strategic assessments of the nature and scale of human trafficking in the UK. Whilst the assessment for 2014 has yet to be produced, the previous assessments recorded two reported cases of trafficking for organ harvesting in 2013, one reported case in 2012 and two reported cases in 2011. There was no strategic assessment in 2010, but there were no cases of trafficking for organ harvesting referred to the National Referral Mechanism in that year.