Question follow-through · 107309
Prostitution: Decriminalisation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to decriminalise sex work throughout the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to decriminalise sex work throughout the UK.
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2026
Answer published
Criminal justice is devolved to Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Home Office is responsible for legislation in England and Wales. Under the current law in England and Wales, the acts of buying and selling sex are not in themselves illegal. There are exi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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