Prostitution: Prosecutions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for charges related to brothels in the last 12 months.
Answered by Sarah Jones
The Home Office collects information on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.
Of those notifiable offences which relate explicitly to brothels, the latest information shows there were 12 charge/summons under offence code ‘024/19 - Keeping A Brothel Used For Prostitution’ recorded by the police in England and Wales, in the year ending March 2025 (excluding Humberside police).
In the same period, there were 0 charge/summons under offence code ‘109/06 – Allowing a child or young person to be in a brothel’ recorded by the police.
It’s worth noting that while these are the only offences explicitly classified as brothel-related, a number of other sexual offences may occur within a brothel setting. However, data on those offences is not collated under a specific brothel-related category.
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