Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the nationalities were of victims in receipt of positive conclusive grounds decisions made through the National Referral Mechanism; and what the nationalities were of those people who were under the age of 18 in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for publishing National Referral Mechanism (NRM) data and does so on a quarterly basis.

Published data on the referrals to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is available via the following link:
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics. The 2017 Annual Report of NRM statistics includes data on the outcomes of NRM decisions by nationality for referrals made in 2017, at Annex G.

Further information is also available in the 2018 UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/749346/2018_UK_Annual_Report_on_Modern_Slavery.pdf which was published on 18 October 2018.