Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for the offence of buying sex from a prostitute controlled for the gain of another person under section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 since April 2010.

The Ministry of Justice has published the number of prosecutions and convictions under S.53A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 as inserted by S.14 Policing and Crime Act 2009, for the calendar years 2013 – 2018 in the ‘Proceedings and Outcomes by Home Office Code 2013 to 2018 data tool’:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802342/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2018.xlsx

• Select the Detailed offence ‘Paying or promising to pay a person to provide sexual services, where that person is subject to exploitative conduct to induce or encourage them to provide those services’ (or alternatively the Offence code ‘16702’).

Prosecutions and convictions for this offence from 2010 to 2012 are in the attached table.