Written question asked by Lord Evans of Rainow (Conservative) on Tuesday, 14 October 2014, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 17 October 2014 (named day). It was answered by Karen Bradley (Conservative) on Friday, 17 October 2014 on behalf of the Home Office.

Slavery

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individual potential victims of trafficking the NSPCC Modern Slavery Helpline offered advice or information to during August 2014; and how many of those people were (a) adults and (b) children.

Answer: In August 2014, the Modern Slavery Helpline received 269 contacts in relation to 430 potential victims. Of the 269 contacts, 114 were from members of the public, one was from a child, one was from a relative and there were 21 contacts from potential victims. The remaining 132 were recorded as other.

Of those 269 contacts, the individual was provided with advice or directed to a source of advice in 121 cases.

The table below sets out the estimated age of the 430 potential victims reported to the helpline:

Age range* Total
1-15 - 20
16-25 - 31
26-35 - 34
36-45 - 13
46-55 - 14
56-65 - 2
Unknown - 316
Total = 430

*Age has been recorded only when a definite age number has been provided. Where the age range has been given for a large group of potential victims, it
has been included in the ‘unknown’ category.

Secondary information