Home Department written question – answered at on 7 April 2014.
Graham Evans
Conservative, Weaver Vale
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the nationality and gender was of each suspected victim of trafficking referred to the Trafficking Victim Support Scheme operated by the Salvation Army in January 2014; in which (a) region, (b) county, (c) metropolitan district, (d) district council area, (e) city and (f) parliamentary Constituency each of the suspected victims was found; which agency referred each person to that scheme; in which town the shelter to which such people were placed for the statutory period was; what continued contact is had with each such victim after they have exited the shelter to avoid re-trafficking; and if she will make a statement.
Karen Bradley
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
In January, 2014 there were 90 referrals to the Government-funded support service for adult victims of human trafficking in England and Wales administered by the Salvation Army.
In order to ensure that victims cannot be identified, the following tables only provide data at a regional level.
| Nationality | Number of referrals |
| Albanian | 23 |
| Bulgarian | 2 |
| Cameroonian | 2 |
| Czech | 3 |
| Chinese | 1 |
| Ethiopian | 1 |
| Ghanaian | 2 |
| Hungarian | 3 |
| Indian | 2 |
| Iranian | 1 |
| Iraqi | 1 |
| Kenyan | 2 |
| Lithuanian | 4 |
| Moroccan | 1 |
| Nigerian | 10 |
| Pakistani | 1 |
| Polish | 3 |
| Romanian | 8 |
| Sierra Leonean | 1 |
| Slovakian | 7 |
| Sri Lankan | 1 |
| Togolese | 1 |
| Ugandan | 3 |
| Vietnamese | 6 |
| Not known | 1 |
| Total | 90 |
| Gender | Number of referrals |
| Female | 59 |
| Male | 31 |
| Transgender | 0 |
| Total | 90 |
| Region where victim was found | Number of referrals |
| East | 4 |
| East Midlands | 2 |
| North East | 1 |
| North East | 3 |
| South | 28 |
| South East | 11 |
| South West | 5 |
| Wales | 2 |
| West Midlands | 12 |
| Yorkshire | 19 |
| Not known | 3 |
| Total | 90 |
| Agency type that referred victims | Number of referrals |
| GLA | 1 |
| Home Office | 27 |
| Legal representative | 5 |
| Local authority | 5 |
| NGO | 18 |
| Other | 5 |
| Police | 25 |
| Self-referral | 4 |
| Total | 90 |
The victim care contract does not require support providers to maintain any form of formal contact after the recovery and reflection period. However, some survivors do maintain informal contact with their support provider, but we do not have this information.
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