Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the level of street prostitution in (a) Streatham constituency, (b) each London borough and (c) the UK; and what steps she is taking to protect women working in street prostitution through (i) facilitating safe exit programmes and (ii) other measures.

The Home Office does not collate information on the levels of prostitution.
Local areas and police forces are in the best position to identify and respond
to issues around prostitution in their area.

We are committed to tackling the harm and exploitation that can be associated
with prostitution, and believe that people who want to leave prostitution
should be given every opportunity to find routes out. The safety of people
involved in prostitution is our overriding concern. This was one of the aspects
considered in our review of effective practice to support partners in tackling
issues around prostitution, and which was published on Gov.uk. In addition, we
are proud to have supported the establishment of the National ‘Ugly Mugs’
Scheme to help protect people involved in prostitution from violent and abusive
individuals. A Home Office funded pilot brought together a number of
locally-run ‘Ugly Mugs’ projects, which encourage sex workers to report
incidents of violence and abuse. Details of perpetrators are then shared with
other people involved in prostitution to help improve safety, and can be passed
on to the police if the victim consents.