To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 23 October 2008, Official Report, column 512W, on human trafficking, what the nationalities were of those (a) arrested and (b) convicted of human trafficking offences in the UK in each of the last five years. (277147)

The list of countries of origin to date of those arrested and/or convicted of human trafficking offences is set out as follows:

United Kingdom

Nigeria

Somalia

Romania

Poland

Spain

Lithuania

Latvia

Bulgaria

Cameroon

Kosovo

Turkey

Thailand

Malaysia

Pakistan

Albania

Hungary

Moldova

Vietnam

Slovakia

Congo

Brazil

China

Ukraine

Czech Republic

Portugal

Serbia

Germany

Philippines

Macedonia

Greece