Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people seeking asylum are being considered under the National Referral Mechanism.
Data on the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) are published regularly by the National Crime Agency and in the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery. These reports are available via the following links:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery