To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 11 March 2009, Official Report, columns 468-9W, on prostitution, what changes were made to the Policing and Crime Bill as a result of the responses received. (266403)

The responses to the Home Office's letter of 26 September were received before the introduction of the Policing and Crime Bill. The responses expressed a range of views, which were taken into consideration in conjunctions with the findings of the Government's ‘Tackling the Demand for Prostitution: A Review’ and contributed as part of this process to the development of measures of clauses 13,14, 18,19 and 20 of the Policing and Crime Bill.