‘There has been universal agreement that elements of the present law are unsatisfactory’.

The Home Affairs Committee has published an interim report on prostitution saying that soliciting by sex workers and the sharing of premises by sex workers should be decriminalised.

The Committee said the Home Office should immediately change existing legislation so that soliciting is no longer an offence and brothel-keeping laws allow sex workers to share premises, without losing the ability to prosecute those who use brothels to control or exploit sex workers.