Question to the Home Office:

To ask Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many potential (a) adult and (b) child victims of modern slavery have been identified since the lockdown due to the covid-19 outbreak was introduced on 23 March 2020.

The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on the number of referrals made to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for adults and children which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics.

Statistics for the first quarter (Q1) of 2020 were published on 4^th June. These include the number of referrals made to the NRM for adults and children between 1^st January and 31^st March 2020.