The All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution report into pop up brothels (2017)
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution, a self-appointed group of MPs, launched an inquiry into the claimed increase of ‘pop-up brothels’. The ECP response points out how this APPG was deeply biased from the start as it was set up specifically to “tackle the demand for the sex trade”, that is promote legislation to criminalise clients. Predictably the Committee ignored rising poverty caused by government economic policies and instead advocated increased police powers against sex workers to raid, arrest and close premises.