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Recommendation 77
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Paragraph: 226
Publish thorough, accurate data to support assertions of National Referral Mechanism abuse for asylum.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government publishes thorough and accurate data to support its assertions of significant abuse of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) to claim asylum to enable objective assessment of the scale of the problem. This data should include: NRM decision outcomes for people who arrive in the UK on small boats; the number of victims positive Conclusive Grounds NRM decisions who receive a grant 80 Human trafficking of Temporary Permission to Stay (and other forms of leave) to remain in the UK; those referred to the NRM who claim asylum, and their asylum outcomes, combined with their NRM referrals and outcomes; and the number and characteristics of people in immigration detention and prison who are referred to the NRM and their NRM decision outcomes.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government did not commit to publishing the specific data types requested to support assertions of NRM abuse. Instead, it stated it is monitoring and evaluating the New Plan for Immigration and related Acts, revising the work to include the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
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Paragraph Reference:
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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81. The Home Office regularly publishes a summary and breakdown of the number of potential victims of modern slavery referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) or via the Duty to Notify (DtN) process, including NRM referrals from Small Boats. Misuse of any system, by its very nature, is difficult to evidence. If we were able to evidence overt misuse, it would be filtered out of the system.
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