Clause 13
Policing and Crime Bill
3:00 pm
Alan Campbell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Tynemouth, Labour)
That can be part of our coming back to the Committee.
I appreciate and understand the need to be clear about the circumstances covered by the term “controlled for gain”. I hope that in our lengthy deliberations, where we have had useful discussion backwards and forwards, I have sufficiently persuaded hon. Members of the advantages of the term that we are proposing to use over their amendments. I also hope that I have stressed the importance we place on the strict liability aspect of the offence and the need to retain the ability to prosecute, even where sexual services are obtained outside England and Wales. I hope that hon. Members, in accepting that reasoning—albeit with the caveats we have agreed to and the need to look again at some of these issues—are reassured sufficiently not to press their amendments.