Home Office · nrm case outcome group: Awaiting a decision

Modern slavery referral outcomes for small boat arrivals: Awaiting a decision

4 periods to 2025 Q4

580 referrals

Modern slavery referral outcomes for small boat arrivals for Awaiting a decision totalled 580 referrals in the 4 periods to 2025 Q4, up 176.2% (370) on the 4 periods before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. Data_IER_D05
  3. all rows; NRM Case Outcome Group=Awaiting a decision
  4. column “Referrals
  5. sum of 61 rows per period
  6. published 27 August 2026

2019 Q2 to 2025 Q4

Modern slavery referral outcomes for small boat arrivals by outcome: 2019 Q2 to 2025 Q4ConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010020020192020202120222023202420252019 Q2: 1 referrals · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 2 referrals · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 2 referrals · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 14 referrals · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 50 referrals · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 17 referrals · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 12 referrals · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 97 referrals · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 180 referrals · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 103 referrals · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 44 referrals · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 121 referrals · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 261 referrals · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 170 referrals · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 5 referrals · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 19 referrals · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 29 referrals · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 15 referrals · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 21 referrals · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 41 referrals · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 48 referrals · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 100 referrals · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 59 referrals · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 135 referrals · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 206 referrals · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 180 referrals · published 27 August 2026

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PeriodModern slavery referral outcomes for small boat arrivals by outcome
2019 Q21 referrals
2019 Q32 referrals
2020 Q12 referrals
2020 Q214 referrals
2020 Q350 referrals
2020 Q417 referrals
2021 Q112 referrals
2021 Q297 referrals
2021 Q3180 referrals
2021 Q4103 referrals
2022 Q144 referrals
2022 Q2121 referrals
2022 Q3261 referrals
2022 Q4170 referrals
2023 Q15 referrals
2023 Q219 referrals
2023 Q329 referrals
2023 Q415 referrals
2024 Q121 referrals
2024 Q241 referrals
2024 Q348 referrals
2024 Q4100 referrals
2025 Q159 referrals
2025 Q2135 referrals
2025 Q3206 referrals
2025 Q4180 referrals

What this measures

The outcomes of National Referral Mechanism referrals for modern slavery raised for people who arrived by small boat, split by outcome group — reasonable grounds decision, conclusive grounds decision, withdrawn or closed, or awaiting a decision — counted in the quarter the person arrived.

Whether a reasonable or conclusive grounds decision was positive or negative, or outcomes for referrals unconnected to small boat arrivals.

Source

Dataset
Immigration system statistics: small boat arrivals, asylum claims and NRM referrals datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026 · sha256 72071ed0ce3777a2
All values
Modern slavery referral outcomes for small boat arrivals by nrm case outcome group