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<p> </p><p>A comparative assessment has been made.</p><p>Parliamentary questions regularly
ask for specific details about suspected <br>victims of trafficking referred to the
trafficking victim support service <br>operated by The Salvation Army.</p><p>The source
of this data is The Salvation Army records.</p><p>The National Crime Agency (NCA)
publishes statistics each year on the number of <br>potential victims who have been
referred to the National Referral Mechanism.</p><p>The source of this data is the
NCA records.</p><p>The two sets of figures measure slightly different things but are
mutually <br>compatible.</p><p>Not all of the potential victims who are referred to
the National Referral <br>Mechanism will then be referred to The Salvation Army for
victim support. Some <br>might not receive a positive reasonable grounds decision
and others might not <br>want Government-funded support.</p><p>We would therefore
expect the number of cases referred to the National Referral <br>Mechanism, reported
by the NCA, to be higher than the number of cases referred <br>to The Salvation Army
for victim support, reported by the regular Parliamentary <br>questions.</p><p>This
is borne out by our comparative assessment. The table below lists the PQs <br>that
have requested data about the numbers of potential victims referred to The <br>Salvation
Army, and lists the number of Albanian victims supported each month.</p><p>In total,
this data indicates that there were 139 Albanian adult victims <br>referred to The
Salvation Army for victim support in 2013 in England and Wales.</p><p>This is lower
than the 208 potential adult Albanian victims who were originally <br>referred to
the National Referral Mechanism in 2013 from England and Wales, as <br>reported in
the NCA's annual report.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>MP</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hansard
Reference</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of Albanian Victims Supported</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>Tony
Baldry</p></td><td><p>14 February 2013, c866W</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>Amber
Rudd</p></td><td><p>11 March 2013, c33W</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>Margot
James</p></td><td><p>3 June 2013, c925W</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>Robert
Buckland</p></td><td><p>3 June 2013, c927W</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>David
Simpson</p></td><td><p>19 June 2013, c712W</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>Chris
Ruane</p></td><td><p>10 July 2013, c276W</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>Fiona
Bruce</p></td><td><p>6 February 2014, c325W</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>Caroline
Spelman</p></td><td><p>28 October 2013, c358W</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>Peter
Bone</p></td><td><p>14 October 2013, c512W</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>Fiona
Bruce</p></td><td><p>3 December 2013, c613W</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>John
Randall</p></td><td><p>9 January 2014, c277W</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>Frank
Field</p></td><td><p>14 January 2014, c481W</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td>
</td><td> </td><td><p><strong>139</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>
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