Speeches

Mark Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Field on 2016-01-04.

To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2015 to Question 19543, how many of those prosecutions for human trafficking resulted in a conviction.

Robert Buckland

During 2014-2015 the CPS prosecuted 187 defendants for offences connected with human trafficking. 130 of these defendants were convicted at a conviction rate of 69.5%.