Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty, highlighted the situation in a report, where he wrote that he had met people “who have sold sex for money or shelter” during his visit to the United Kingdom last November.
The Work and Pensions Committee in the House of Commons has launched an inquiry into “survival sex” in response to evidence showing that an increasing number of women have been forced to turn to prostitution to pay rent or feed their families, The Independent reported.
At the time, McVey replied that Field could “tell these ladies that now we’ve got record job vacancies – 830,000 and perhaps there are other jobs on offer”.