Clause 13
Policing and Crime Bill
2:30 pm
Alan Campbell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Tynemouth, Labour)
That illustrates exactly how difficult this is. I know what is at the heart of the concerns raised by hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon, and indeed all our concerns. As I said, I will look at this matter. However, I would also caution against seeing this as an employee-employer relationship. It has been put to me by prostitutes that every relationship—not only those between prostitutes and their clients, pimps and madams—is in someway exploitative. We have to draw the line somewhere and we are confident that this is the right place for it to be. However, I give the hon. Gentleman a commitment to look again at that specific point.