UK govt plots to make prostitution legal

UK Government has ordered a large-scale analysis of prostitution in the UK as it gets set to rework the law, reports Sunday Express.

The Home Office Select Committee has recommended that soliciting sex is no longer an offense, prostitutes have their criminal records wiped and that brothel-keeping provisions are changed.

But rather than ruling out the recommendations, the Government has instead agreed to order a wide scale probe on the issue in order to facilitate evidence-based policy decisions. The report, published in December 2016, set out the Government's response to the Home Office Select Committee's findings on the issue.

The committee led by Yvette Cooper recommended far ranging changes that will seek to decriminalize sex workers in England and Wales are implemented.

The report states: "We recommend that, at the earliest opportunity, the Home Office change existing legislation so that soliciting is no longer an offense and so that brothel-keeping provisions allow sex workers to share premises, without losing the ability to prosecute those who use brothels to control or exploit sex workers.  "There must be zero tolerance of the organized criminal exploitation of sex workers.