Craig Scott at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

That was not the impression you left.

I want to make sure that the government is fully on side with the Bedford decision. In Bedford your government argued, as can be seen at paragraph 80 of the Bedford judgment, that “it is their choice”—that is, prostitutes' choice or sex workers' choice—“to engage in the activity, not the law, that is the cause” of the risks they face, or any violence or insecurity or health consequences. The Supreme Court roundly rejected that line of argument by your government.

I want to confirm for everybody here that you accept that the line of argument was erroneous.