Child Prostitution

EDM number 349 in 1995-96, proposed by Llin Golding on 29/01/1996.

That this House notes that over 250 honourable Members from all parts of the House have recently expressed their deep concern at continuing reports about citizens of developed countries travelling overseas as tourists to procure child prostitutes and pornography in poor countries in Africa, India and Asia; noting further that the governments of Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United States of America, Iceland, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland have legislated to give their domestic courts jurisdiction to prosecute such residents and nationals for sexual offences inflicted on children abroad; and further noting that prosecutions under such legislation have proved feasible, urges Her Majesty's Government to give British courts extra-territorial jurisdiction for prosecuting such offences committed by British nationals abroad either by enacting the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill (Lords) which has been reintroduced by Lord Hylton, or by introducing a comparable government measure as a matter of urgency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 163 MPs.