questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the disbanding of Multi-Agency Assurance Panels on independent assurance of National Referral Mechanism decisions in the review of negative Conclusive Grounds decisions by the Single Competent Authority and Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority to identify victims of modern slavery; and if she will make it her policy to reinstate a MAAP assurance process that (a) tests consistency of decision-making and (b) protects the individual concerned.
answerText: The number of referrals into the National Referral Mechanism has continued to grow year on year (17,004 individuals were referred into the NRM in 2023), and the pressure on the timeliness of decision-making in the NRM has only continued to increase. The p...
heading: Immigration: Slavery