Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on giving consideration in the asylum process to the risk of returning girls to countries where there is a high likelihood of female genital mutilation being carried out.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the rt. hon. Member for
Newcastle Upon Tyne East (Mr Nicholas Brown) on 20 March 2014, Official Report,
column 685W.