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Written question asked by Peter Bone (Conservative) on Tuesday, 28 November 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 30 November 2006. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 5 December 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.

Human Trafficking

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate the Government has made of the number of women trafficked into this country for the purposes of sexual exploitation in the last 12 months.
Answer

Referral figures from the POPPY Project show that there have been 161 women referred to the project in the period December 2005 to October 2006.It remains difficult to make an accurate assessment of the extent of the trafficking problem. There are no statistics that clearly indicate the precise number of women trafficked to the UK within the last 12 months, although intelligence suggests there has been an increase over the last two or three years. The emerging findings from a Home Office research paper due to be published in 2007 suggests that at any one time in 2003 there were in the region of 4,000 victims of trafficking for prostitution in the UK.An analysis of information obtained from Operation Pentameter will assist in further developing out understanding of the scale of the problem in this area.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
106987; 454 c283W;454 c286W
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Human trafficking
Link
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