'Essay Mills' to be banned

It has been widely reported this morning that offering essay-writing services to students for a fee will become a criminal offence, as part of the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill.

According to the BBC, 'A 2018 survey suggested that 15.7% of recent graduates admitted to cheating, but Universities UK said that the use of essay mills by students was rare....The National Union of Students said: "These private companies prey on students' vulnerabilities and insecurities to make money through exploitation, and never more so than during the pandemic."'

Is this a good move? Will weak students who might be drawn to using essay mills just find another way of cheating with their assessments? Does the answer lie more in examining why so many students, according to the 2018 survey, seem to feel that academic cheating is acceptable, and to make this sort of academic malpractice as unacceptable as other forms of fraud?

@Evil Homer, @StrawberryDreams

This is a good step, but probably won’t cease this practice completely.
I have heard that some students enter university with the intention to use essay mills because they don’t actually care for the degree or the associated job prospects etc. They enter university for the purpose of getting rich off the maintenance loan. Whether this is true or not I have no idea, but since all manor of other types of fraud exists, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Well there were maintenance fraud schemes that had assignment milling packaged in operating in 2017...
https://agentbee.net/uk-education-agent-scandal/

But I'll just cheerfully assume that it's all been taken care of by now.