Policing and Crime Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. Perhaps I may draw her attention to a debate in the other place on 19 May and a very moving speech by the right honourable John Gummer MP, speaking of the experience in his Ipswich constituency of the murder of five women sex workers and referring to the fact that the exploitation of human beings is at the heart of evil. He said that, ""if someone wishes to pay for sex, they must recognise that in doing so they take on a particular burden";" and he concluded with a question: ""Is it not reasonable in a civilised society to say to people whose very act of paying for sex is exploitative, at least to some extent … ‘Cave emptor. You have to make the decision, and the responsibility is with you’? Yes, it is true that we probably would not do this in almost any other circumstance in a free society, but we are not talking about any other circumstance. We are talking about the exploitation of one human being by another".—[Official Report, Commons, 19/5/09; col. 1438-39.]" I believe that those remarks adequately and very movingly sum up the reasons why the provisions in Part 2 are essential.