Member

I thank my noble friend the Minister for the way in which he and the Bill team have conducted themselves and for their ability to listen and on occasion to act, which is a limited commodity sometimes in debates in your Lordships’ House, but it just has not gone far enough. For all the reasons that have been given, we should continue to deal with the issue of solicitation here, if we possibly can, because it is relatively simple. I do not know what the complication is: if people do things in this jurisdiction to avoid being prosecuted for doing other things, which is what solicitation is about, we should criminalise it—and we do in every other area of the law, as I have said before. I am trying not to make the same speech that I have made about three or four times on this.