Home Office written question – answered at on 19 February 2026.
Rupert Lowe
Independent, Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) charged and (b) convicted for offences related to human trafficking or sexual exploitation following National Referral Mechanism referrals in each of the last three calendar years.
Jess Phillips
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Home Office does not collect data on police investigations specifically following an NRM referral or disaggregated data on charges or convictions for human trafficking or sexual exploitation. Given this, we are unable to provide the information you have requested.
Prosecutions and convictions data related to modern slavery is recorded by the Crown Prosecution Service in their quarterly data summaries.
Sentencing data for modern slavery offences in England and Wales is published by the Ministry of Justice in their Criminal Justice System statistics.
Offences and charges data for modern slavery is published in the Home Office police recorded crime statistics collection.
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