Question follow-through · 20234

Slavery

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) positive reasonable grounds decisions and (b) conclusive grounds decisions which have been made under the National Referral Mechanism between 2020 and 2

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
18 Dec 2024
Answer
21 Jan 2025 · 36 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 16 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) positive reasonable grounds decisions and (b) conclusive grounds decisions which have been made under the National Referral Mechanism between 2020 and 2

  2. 18 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 21 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    From January 2020 to September 2024, there were 70,790 referrals into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). These have seen a continued increase.In the same period, there were 51,850 positive reasonable grounds decisions made, and 34,254 conclusive groun...

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