The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Jess Phillips): I am grateful to my hon.

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I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for securing this debate, which, as she pointed out, is my first as a Home Office Minister—although definitely not my first on this subject, by any stretch of the imagination. From the outset, let me say that it is a privilege to have been asked by the Prime Minister to serve, and to work on some of the issues to which I have devoted much of my life both inside and outside this building. We have an enormous task on our hands. Debates such as this underline why it is so critical that we make real progress in protecting wome

Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Gerald Jones.) There have been huge advances in the battle for women’s equality in recent decades, but on some issues, we have gone backwards. Chief among them is commercial sexual exploitation. [Interruption.] Order. I ask that Members leave the Chamber quietly, out of respect for the Adjournment debate. Giving someone money, accommodation, food, a job or other services on the condition that they perform sex acts is sexual exploitation and abuse, yet the global trade in sexual exploitation—perpetrated primarily against women…