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Policing And Crime Bill Provisions Introducing Orders Requiring Attendance At Meetings

EDM number 524 in 2008-09, proposed by Lynne Jones on 20/01/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Sexual offences.

That this House notes that Clause 16 in the Policing and Crime Bill providing for the introduction of Orders Requiring Attendance at Meetings for those found to be loitering or soliciting for the purposes of prostitution is simply a rehash of the abandoned proposal in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill for compulsory rehabilitation; considers that there is no evidence that compulsion assists in rehabilitation and agrees with the Royal College of Nursing that the proposal will lead to greater detention of some of the most vulnerable, stigmatised and marginalised people in society whose criminalisation helps institutionalise them in prostitution; and therefore urges the Government to concentrate instead on providing high-quality outreach programmes, independent of the criminal justice system, which offer healthcare and support, sexual health advice and drug rehabilitation opportunities that individuals who want to leave prostitution can access.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lynne Jones20/01/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourProposed
Evan Harris20/01/2009Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Fisher20/01/2009Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSeconded
Dai Davies21/01/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSeconded
Brian Iddon21/01/2009Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Glenda Jackson21/01/2009Hampstead and HighgateLabourSeconded
Greg Pope21/01/2009HyndburnLabourSigned
Alan Simpson21/01/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Paul Holmes21/01/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George22/01/2009St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen26/01/2009Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Ann Cryer26/01/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington26/01/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard26/01/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Mike Hancock26/01/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins27/01/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Michael Clapham27/01/2009Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Eric Illsley23/02/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned

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