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, whether the National Crime Agency has ceased to produce its standalone annual strategic assessment of the nature and scale of human trafficking in the UK; and if she will make a statement.

The last National Crime Agency standalone strategic assessment was published in 2015. This year, the Joint Slavery and Trafficking Analysis Centre (JSTAC) was established, which is a dedicated intelligence analysis centre comprising analysts from a range of agencies, including the NCA. Its assessments are based on a range of classified material which means they are not routinely published.