Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Fiona Bruce Excerpts
Monday 11th April 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Karen Bradley Portrait Karen Bradley
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The right hon. Lady knows that we are not giving a running commentary on numbers, but I can assure her that the work is taking place and that any unaccompanied asylum-seeking child in France should claim asylum there with the support of the NGOs, and if they have family in the UK, we will reunite them.

Fiona Bruce Portrait Fiona Bruce (Congleton) (Con)
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In view of the clear link between trafficking and forced prostitution, and following the French Government’s change last week to their prostitution laws, criminalising sex buyers but not the vulnerable women involved, and similar changes in Sweden and Norway years ago which reduced trafficking substantially, do Ministers agree that that should be considered in this country?