![]() ![]() He added: "What our concern is that there is a significant increase in the number of people misusing the NRM and the good work that my right honourable friend has done on this issue to bring about a spurious, frivolous, last minute way of frustrating their removal from the country." Mr Jenrick replied that they "agree" that the point that individuals are misusing the NRM is when they are detained for removal from the UK in order to delay their removal. ![]() She asked: "Will he now confirm that the average percentage of people coming on small boats and claiming modern slavery has not changed over the last three years and is around 7%?" ![]() "What he is talking about is people who are subsequently detained for removal," she said. Mrs May said: "He has yet again quoted the statistics that the minister in the other place quoted as well - that the rate at which rate at which gives the implication that the percentage of people coming on small boats and claiming modern slavery has risen from 6% to 73%. She said Mr Jenrick "knows that I have a problem with the statistics" and implied that he is using an inflated figure in the debate. Former prime minister and home secretary Theresa May has intervened in immigration minister Robert Jenrick's speech in the Commons to criticise the way the government is using modern slavery statistics. ![]()
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