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date	03/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prostitution: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2024 to Question 23443 on Prostitution: Internet, whether his Department has received legal advice on the legality of the operations of adult services websites.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	24749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal in England and Wales. Adult Service Websites are online advertising directories that provide a platform on which legitimate sex workers and escorts can advertise their services and are legal under current prostitution legislation.</p><p>Ministers responsible for the Safeguarding portfolio have met the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) lead for sex work five times since 2017; at least two of those meetings were conducted virtually. The Home Office works closely with the police to cut crime and protect vulnerable people. Officials regularly meet representatives of NPCC portfolios as part of their routine engagement with the police.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 24750 question first answered 09/05/2024 15:48:55 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

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date	28/01/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any of the devolved administrations have refused to consent to the provisions dealing with public sector exit payments contained within the Enterprise Bill.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	24749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>The public sector exit payment cap will come into effect at a date after the Enterprise Bill has received Royal Assent. The Enterprise Bill is currently expected to receive Royal Assent by May 2016. A set of secondary regulations which will give effect to the public sector exit payment cap are currently expected to come into force during autumn 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to the consultation the Government stated that ‘the government would request Legislative Consent Motions from the Devolved Administrations where appropriate, however it would be for the Devolved Administrations to decide the approach they wish to take to this measure.’</p><p> </p><p>On 7 December 2015 the Northern Ireland Assembly declined to agree a Legislative Consent Motion. Subsequently, no provisions relating to Northern Ireland are included in the clauses relating to exit payments.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 24748 24844 question first answered 05/02/2016 14:00:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan