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 who have been trafficked into the UK through the Port of Cairnryan in each of the last three years.
Information is not held centrally on the specific location from which potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking are first identified. For Scotland as a whole, the number of potential victims first identified in Scotland and referred to the National Referral Mechanism (the support service provided to potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking) for the last three years are:
Year | Total number of potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking first indentified in Scotland and referred to the National Referral Mechanism |
2016 | 150 |
2015 | 145 |
2014 | 111 |