Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether all positive reasonable grounds decisions made under the National Referral Mechanism for children result in the recording of a crime of modern slavery.

The Home Office has amended the crime counting rules in respect of modern slavery offences so that when a positive reasonable grounds referral is received from an NRM competent authority the relevant police force to whom the referral is made must record a crime of modern slavery.

This applies to both adults and children referred into the NRM.