Responses to legislation

Response to Nov 08 govt proposals on clients, brothels and lapdancing

Response to government consultation on trafficking

Response to Setting the Boundaries, Reforming the Law on Sex Offences

Criminalisation the price women and children pay – Response to the government's review of the prostitution laws

David Blunkett is no Josephine Butler! His policies have made sex workers more vulnerable to violence and exploitation. Women working in various areas of the sex industry and spokeswomen from the IPC are available for interview on the new government proposals.

Letter in the Evening Standard, 20 July 2004: Women who have no choice
DAVID Blunkett is using the Home Office consultation paper on prostitution, Paying the Price, to promote his own punitive agenda of compulsory health checks and registration with the police (Bold move to legalise brothels, 16 July)...

Plans threaten vulnerable sex workers 19 Jan 2006

Response to Setting the Boundaries, Reforming the Law on Sex Offences, 2003