Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential cases of modern slavery were encountered by Immigration Enforcement Compliance teams in each of the past three years.
The number of operations referred to Criminal & Financial Investigation where the primary crime type was marked as modern slavery was as follows:
2015/16: 48
2016/17: 61
2017/18: 38
This data has been derived from local management information and is therefore subject to change.