Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested and (b) successfully prosecuted for (i) kerb-crawling, (ii) prostitution and (iii) running a brothel in each London borough in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested on arrests is not available centrally. Information on arrests collected centrally is based on persons arrested for ““notifiable”” offences by main offence group (i.e. sexual offences, violence against the person and burglary etc) and at police force area only and therefore does not identify individual offences nor constituency areas or local authorities.The information requested for successful prosecutions for kerb-crawling, prostitution and running a brothel is attached table which has also been placed in the Library.