The majority of those referred to food banks were people living in special supported accommodation.
Only 14 of those referred to in the Gage report are still in the army.
Equally, some of those referred to the NRM may not ultimately be classified as victims of human trafficking," he said.
Just 6.8% of those referred to the programme in the latest three months have found long-term work.
Very few people are sanctioned, the employment minister said, with only 0.00057% of those referred given the maximum three-year sanction.
The government's own reticence in publishing information about the strategy – from how success is measured, to what happens to the data of those referred – only increases suspicion.
(A recent FoI request breaking down the referral figures up to 2013, though, showed 14% were due to far-right extremism, while 57.4% of those referred were Muslims).
Young children such as Tom are unusual, but not rare: last year alone, close to 100 of those referred were aged 10 or younger.
Despite the fact that Muslims make up just 5% of the population, data from the National Police Chiefs Council shows that 67% of those referred for suspected "radicalisation" between 2007-2010 were Muslim, the figure was 56% between 2012-13.
For example, of those referred to the NRM, 77% of Poles and 67% of Lithuanians were recognised as victims of trafficking in 2015, while only 11% of Vietnamese and 10% of Nigerians were equally lucky.
In Astoria, Queens, some of those referred clients may meet Josefa Castro, 43, who has been a social work supervisor at Catholic Charities, Brooklyn and Queens, for almost two decades.
