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Human Trafficking: Children

Question for Home Office

UIN HL4964, tabled on 24 January 2017

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children under 16 years of age were identified as potentially trafficked through the National Referral Mechanism in each year between 2010 and 2014.

Answered on

2 February 2017

The Government views the slavery, including trafficking, of children as a very serious offence, and one which it is committed to tackling. The NRM is the UK’s identification and support mechanism for potential victims of modern slavery. The table below shows:

a) the number children under the age of 16 that were referred to the NRM as potentially trafficked in each year between 2010 and 2015:

b) the number children under 12 years of age that were referred to the NRM as potentially trafficked in each year between 2010 and 2015;

c) the number children under 10 years of age that were referred to the NRM as potentially trafficked in each year between 2010 and 2015.

Year

Total Potential Victims under 16 at Time of Referral (NB. This does not include those aged 16.)

Total Potential Victims under 12 years (NB. This does not include those aged 12 years)

Total Potential Victims under 10 years (NB. This does not include those aged 10 years)

2010

70

14

9

2011

95

35

27

2012

126

52

41

2013

172

47

34

2014

293

88

68

2015

365

61

39

The table below provides the breakdown of the countries of origin of the 365 children who were identified as potentially trafficked via an NRM referral in the year 2015.

Nationality/ Country of Origin

Total

Afghanistan

24

Albania

51

Angola

5

Bangladesh

7

Bulgaria

5

Cameroon

1

China

2

Czech Republic

7

Democratic Republic of the Congo

6

Egypt

4

Eritrea

9

Ethiopia

2

Ghana

3

Guinea

1

Guinea / Portugal

1

India

1

Iran

4

Iraq

4

Israel

1

Ivory Coast

1

Latvia

1

Lithuania

2

Nigeria

17

Pakistan

2

Poland

2

Portugal

1

Romania

13

Serbia/Kosovo

1

Slovakia

8

Somalia

1

Spain

2

Sri Lanka

3

Sudan

4

Syria

3

Timor - Leste

3

Tunisia

1

Turkey

1

Uganda

1

United Kingdom

55

United Kingdom/Vietnam

1

United States of America

5

Unknown

3

Vietnam

93

Zambia

2

Zimbabwe

1

Total

365

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