To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme of 28 October 2009, Official Report, column 422W, on Trafigura: injunctions, when he expects to announce the result of his assessment of the effects of the practice of granting injunctions which prohibit...

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme of 28 October 2009, Official Report, column 422W, on Trafigura: injunctions, when he expects to announce the result of his assessment of the effects of the practice of granting injunctions which prohibit...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, but I profoundly disagree with him. That organisation has done a huge disservice to the cause of trafficked women and coerced sex slaves. I particularly welcome and endorse the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stourbridge. I...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, but I profoundly disagree with him. That organisation has done a huge disservice to the cause of trafficked women and coerced sex slaves. I particularly welcome and endorse the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stourbridge. I...

We have here a fundamental difference. I am sorry—I am really trying to make a short speech, but I find myself disagreeing with right hon. and hon. Friends on my own side. I can imagine almost any profession, business or trade in the world that I would be happy for...

We have here a fundamental difference. I am sorry—I am really trying to make a short speech, but I find myself disagreeing with right hon. and hon. Friends on my own side. I can imagine almost any profession, business or trade in the world that I would be happy for...

I will give way in a moment. You will be glad to know that I am not going to make a long speech, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Every international body from the International Organisation for Migration to the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights talks of...

I will give way in a moment. You will be glad to know that I am not going to make a long speech, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Every international body from the International Organisation for Migration to the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights talks of...

I wish that I could join my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) in congratulating the English Collective of Prostitutes, but that organisation has consistently opposed all campaigning efforts to slow down trafficking. Indeed, it was quite violently—I would almost say vulgarly—opposed to the propositions that...

I wish that I could join my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) in congratulating the English Collective of Prostitutes, but that organisation has consistently opposed all campaigning efforts to slow down trafficking. Indeed, it was quite violently—I would almost say vulgarly—opposed to the propositions that...

Good show!

Good show!

I am shocked that my hon. Friend says that there is a lap-dancing club in her constituency proposing to build 50 private booths. We just heard from the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes)—the Lib Dems are now the party of lap-dancing supporters—but 50 private booths? What on earth does...

I am shocked that my hon. Friend says that there is a lap-dancing club in her constituency proposing to build 50 private booths. We just heard from the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Paul Holmes)—the Lib Dems are now the party of lap-dancing supporters—but 50 private booths? What on earth does...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—I might call him my hon. Friend in this cause. We were here a few months ago, and sadly nothing has advanced. If the Government had treated the issue more seriously, perhaps we would not be where we are today. In past years, people...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—I might call him my hon. Friend in this cause. We were here a few months ago, and sadly nothing has advanced. If the Government had treated the issue more seriously, perhaps we would not be where we are today. In past years, people...

The Minister's proposed definition, which severely waters down the Bill's original intention, will not cover any of the poor women who were killed in Ipswich. They were not forced, deceived or threatened. They were killed, because they were prostitutes, by a man who would face absolutely no pressure from any...

The Minister's proposed definition, which severely waters down the Bill's original intention, will not cover any of the poor women who were killed in Ipswich. They were not forced, deceived or threatened. They were killed, because they were prostitutes, by a man who would face absolutely no pressure from any...

I would modestly suggest that a definition that can satisfy everybody is all but impossible to achieve. There is a definition that covers anybody who employs a cleaning lady, for example, who might be an illegal immigrant. It is no defence to say, "I didn't know that she was an...

I would modestly suggest that a definition that can satisfy everybody is all but impossible to achieve. There is a definition that covers anybody who employs a cleaning lady, for example, who might be an illegal immigrant. It is no defence to say, "I didn't know that she was an...

The hon. Gentleman is making his case fairly, but what he is actually saying is that there is going to be very little deterrent and no discouragement. I am not all surprised that Liberty, which is a libertarian organisation, is defending the rights of men to have sex almost on...

The hon. Gentleman is making his case fairly, but what he is actually saying is that there is going to be very little deterrent and no discouragement. I am not all surprised that Liberty, which is a libertarian organisation, is defending the rights of men to have sex almost on...