Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the pilots testing changes to the National Referral Mechanism referred to in the Modern Slavery Strategy will begin and end; what mechanism is in place to evaluate the pilot; and when an evaluation report will be produced.

The recommendations of the National Referral Mechanism review will be piloted for a year from this Summer. Pilots will be assessed by the Home Office Crime and Policing Analysis Unit which will report regularly to the National Referral Mechanism Pilot Steering Board and produce a final report at the end of the pilot period.