Sir David Spiegelhalter
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51 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Apr 2013
last heard Jan 2015
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The numbers are there.
And there you also get services and costs.
And the average cost of £67 probably isn't too bad.
It might be a bit low.
But again, as a profession, it's a huge variability between streetwalking to high-class escorts.
Probably those numbers aren't too bad.
The crucial thing is this assumption that each person working is seeing 1,200 clients a year.
And this seems very high indeed.
And we can do a few little sort of reality checks on this.
It would mean, for example, that everybody working in prostitution was actually turning over £100,000 a year.
And this doesn't seem plausible from people who know about these things.
We can also say that the ONS assumptions mean that there's 75 million visits to prostitutes every year in this country.
That's one and a half million a week.
Now, from an alternative source, the latest NatSAL survey on sexual behavior, estimate that around about 4% of men between 18 and 65 report paying for sex in the last five years.
And over the last year, probably figures about half a million.
And that may be an underestimate, but probably not too bad.
Half a million men paying for sex every year in this country.
And you may think that sounds quite a lot, but in order to get to 1.5 million visits per week, each would have to be buying sex three times a week.
And that does not reflect, as far as one can see, behaviour.
So I guess my feeling is that this figure is too high.
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