ABSTRACT
In 2000, a Home O ce research study, “Stopping Tra c: Exploring the Extent of, and Responses to, Tra cking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the UK,” concluded that there were no accurate estimates available either nationally or internationally. e report identi ed 71 women known to have been tra cked into prostitution in the United Kingdom in 1998 but added that there was a hidden tra cking problem several times greater than they were able to document with certainty. ey were able to estimate that the scale of tra cking of women into and within the United Kingdom lay within the range of 142 to 1,420 per year.
