To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested and (b) convicted for human trafficking offences in (i) Cambridgeshire, (ii) Peterborough and (iii) the UK in each of the last five years. (187137)

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 came into force on 1 May 2004. 232 arrests have been made for human trafficking offences with 134 being charged with trafficking and trafficking related offences. Conviction figures under dedicated trafficking legislation for the United Kingdom are as follows:

There have been six arrests in Cambridgeshire all of which took place in 2007-08 all of which are being processed through the criminal justice system.

There are no figures available in relation to the number of arrests in Peterborough specifically.