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Human Trafficking and Sexual Offences: Prosecutions

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) holds management information which shows the number of prosecuted defendants flagged with the modern slavery (human trafficking) monitoring flag where 2 or more defendants have been prosecuted on the same case. The data is derived using a manual process as the CPS Case Management Information System does not report this information. As with any manual exercise, the data may be subject to errors in processing and the information is for operational use only.

The table below shows the flagged prosecution data (where 2 or more defendants have been prosecuted on the same cases) for the last three calendar years ending 31^st December 2024.

Prosecuted defendants flagged with the modern slavery monitoring flag
2022	2023	2024
Modern slavery flagged defendants with a completed prosecution outcome on cases with 2 or more defendants	281	263	314
Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

The CPS define modern slavery as the following – for offences committed prior to 31^st July 2015 ss57-59A Sexual Offences Act 2003, s4 Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004, s71 Coroners and Justice 2009 and for offences committed after the Modern Slavery Act 2015 came into force on the 31^st July 2015, s1, 2 and 4 of the Act. Included in the definition are the inchoate versions of the listed offences.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

112401

Session

2024-26

Transferred

Yes

Subjects

Human trafficking Prosecutions Sexual offences Exploitation

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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