questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the national referral mechanism.
answerText: The Government is focussed on improving National Referral Mechanism (NRM) decision-making timescales. We have seen an unprecedented increase in the volume of referrals in the NRM; a 625% rise between 2014 and 2022. In 2023, 17,004 potential victims of mod...
heading: Slavery: Victims