To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many brothels have been raided in England and Wales in each of the last three years, broken down by region. (240574)

This information is not centrally collated.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate her Department has made of the average age of people first entering into prostitution in the latest period for which information is available; and upon what research her Department's calculations are based. (241129)

The Government's consultation paper on prostitution, Paying the Price, provides a summary of research on the age of first involvement in prostitution. This paper is available at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/paying_ the_price.pdf?view=Binary.