3rd Report - Prostitution
- HC No.
- HC 26
- Published
- 1 Jul 2016
- Items
- 0
- Government response
- Government response published 2 December 2016. Read the government's response ↗
Select committee: Home Affairs Committee
Prostitution inquiry
Closed
Opened 7 Jan 2016
Closed 22 Feb 2017
Home Affairs Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Home Affairs Committee publishes an interim report on prostitution, saying that soliciting by sex workers, and sex workers sharing premises, should be decriminalised. Government Response Government Response to the report on prostitution The Home Affairs Committee looks into the way prostitution is treated in legislation. In particular, the inquiry assesses whether the balance in the burden of criminality should shift to those who pay for sex rather than those who sell it.
Where it stands
The inquiry is closed, opened 7 January 2016.
The committee has published 1 report, most recently 3rd Report - Prostitution on 1 July 2016.
The government's response
Published 2 December 2016.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government welcomes the interim report and, while recognising the Committee's ambition, says the full implications of its recommendations must be properly considered, so it will await the final report before considering alternative approaches.
- It agrees there is a need for a research study into prostitution in England and Wales, and says the Home Office "will provide an interim report to Parliament by June 2017".
- On decriminalising soliciting, brothel-keeping and deleting convictions, it "notes" the Committee's recommendations and says its robust evidence base on scale and nature would "have to be established" before policy changes are considered.
- On child sexual exploitation, it agrees that protection and support for 16 and 17 year olds should continue past 18, and will publish practice guidance "later this year" stating that exploitation "does not cease just because a young person turns 18".
- On trafficking, it says it "will of course consider" how future legislative and policy changes support prevention, "consulting and working with relevant stakeholders as the work progresses".
Reports
- 3rd Report - Prostitution1 July 2016
Evidence
- 2 oral evidence sessionsLatest 10 May 2016
Recent activity
- Prostitution: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2016-172 December 2016, Report published
- 3rd Report - Prostitution1 July 2016, Report published
- Oral evidence session10 May 2016, Oral evidence
Reports
Oral evidence sessions
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