Human Trafficking

Margaret Moran
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) incidents of and (b) prosecutions for child trafficking there were in each of the last five years.

Mr. Coaker
Data on of the numbers of children and unaccompanied minors trafficked into the UK for each year since 2000 are not centrally recorded.

To address this lack of data, the Government have commissioned the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre (CEOP) to scope the scale and nature of child trafficking into the UK.

The most up-to-date information provided to the Home Office by the Crown Prosecution Service indicates that at least 12 defendants have been charged in three separate cases that involved female victims between the ages of 15 and 18. Of these 10 were convicted and received lengthy sentences.