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Commons · Question 20234 · Tabled 16 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 21 Jan 2025

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Asked by Carolyn Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) positive reasonable grounds decisions and (b) conclusive grounds decisions which have been made under the National Referral Mechanism between 2020 and 2

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Answered by Jess Phillips, 21 Jan 2025

From January 2020 to September 2024, there were 70,790 referrals into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). These have seen a continued increase.In the same period, there were 51,850 positive reasonable grounds decisions made, and 34,254 conclusive groun...