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Offences against Children: Guinea-Bissau and Portugal

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 8 April 2025UIN 44064

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children from (a) Guinea-Bissau and (b) Portugal have been referred to the national referral mechanism in each year since its start.

Answered by Jess Phillips

The Home Office does not hold or publish data on the number of National Referral Mechanism (NRM) referrals received for individuals on a constituency level.

The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics regarding the NRM including the nationality of children referred. NRM statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-referral-mechanism-statistics

Further disaggregated data is published via the UK Data Service and can be accessed here: https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8910

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