The new offences in clauses 49 to 56 to tackle prostitution and child pornography replace existing legislation, but they do not replace all existing prostitution legislation. The provisions relating to kerb crawling, loitering and soliciting for prostitution, among others, remain on the statute book. That is because of the point that I made in response to the hon. Member for Romsey. Primarily, the area of prostitution, rather than the exploitation of people through prostitution, was outside of the remit of the sexual offences review, which recommended a further review of matters relating to prostitution. The Home Secretary announced that review earlier this year.

Clause 57 rectifies one of the fundamental flaws in existing legislation—the fact that it is gender-specific. Most existing prostitution legislation is framed in terms of men committing offences against female prostitutes. However, male and female prostitutes can be exploited both by someone of their own sex and by someone of the opposite sex. The law is outdated, and clause 57 introduces and brings into effect schedule 1 to make the legislation gender neutral. I do not propose to go through all the details. Schedule 1 lists all the legislation to which clause 57 applies.

While I am on my feet, perhaps I could deal with proposed new clause 3. It would amend the offence of loitering or soliciting for the purposes of prostitution in section 1(1) of the Street Offences Act 1959. That is outside the scope of the Bill, but we believe that it should be taken up in the review that I have outlined. Therefore, I ask my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and Wyre not to press the new clause, but I

will be happy to make some more points when he has spoken to it.