Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 July 2017 to Question 1480, on human trafficking, if she will place in the Library a copy of the data used by the National Crime Agency in making its assessment of the nature and scale of modern slavery in the UK.

The data used by the National Crime Agency to make its assessment of the nature and scale of modern slavery in the UK as published in the 2017 National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime is based on classified intelligence sources and cannot therefore be made available.

The quantitative assessment of the overall scale of modern slavery in the UK quoted in this publication refers to a 2014 Home Office estimate which is publically available on the Gov.uk website via the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-an-application-of-multiple-systems-estimation