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Tonight MPs are considering Lords Amendments to the controversial Police and Crime Bill which currently includes a clause to protect tenants in need of a home
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The Government has been slammed for not making it easier to prosecute landlords who sexually exploit their tenants in need of a home.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said it’s a “clear pattern” for the government to “dig in their heels” on this issue as Labour and campaigners urge ministers to protect women and girls.
Tonight the controversial Police and Crime Bill returns to the Commons for a round of parliamentary ping-pong, where legislation passes between the Commons and the Lords until an agreement is reached.
The Tories are tonight set to try and block proposals which would criminalise landlords accepting or arranging sex for rent.
Labour have put forward proposals to criminalise sex for rent, with the amendments set to be voted on tonight.
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Under clause 142 of the Bill, peers inserted the amendment to make it an “offence for a person to arrange or facilitate requiring sexual relations as a condition of accommodation”.
The clause explains that the landlord will be committing an offence if “they know they are arranging this offence, reasonably should know they actions would enable (sex for rent) or if they were informed”.
However the government has blocked Labour’s proposals, despite the…
