Asked by: Sarah Owen (Labour - Luton North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has (a) allocated to and (b) spent on prevention of female genital mutilation in each financial year since 2014-15.
Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Government is tackling female genital mutilation (FGM) through its landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.
We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls. The Government’s approach is focused on preventing these crimes from happening, supporting and protecting survivors and those at risk, and bringing perpetrators to justice.
The below outlines the annual spending allocated by the Home Office to prevent and tackle FGM in England and Wales in each financial year since 2015. The Home Office does not hold funding information for earlier than 2015/2016. This funding was used for a range of activity to tackle FGM, including victim support helplines, training courses on FGM for frontline personnel, academic research and communication campaigns:
FY 2015-2016: £2,718,000
FY 2016-2017: £1,664,000
FY 2017-2018: £2,358,768
FY 2018-2019: £2,403,768
FY 2019-2020: £1,023,768
FY 2020-2021: £334,234
FY 2021-2022: £211,020
FY 2022-2023: £259,568
FY 2023-2024: £1,170,209
FY 2024-2025: £1,108,599