Female Genital Mutilation
(asked on 27th April 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget has been spent on tackling female genital mutilation in the UK in each financial year since 2015.
The Department funded the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Prevention Programme between 2014 and 2018. The spend is shown in the following table:
Financial Year | Amount | Proportion of Department’s budget |
2015-16 | £900,014 | 0.0008% |
2016-17 | £607,808 | 0.0005% |
2017-18 | £494,265 | 0.0004% |
2018-19 | £349,050 | 0.0003% |
NHS England and local National Health Service bodies also fund healthcare services for women and girls who have undergone FGM, alongside Departmental funding for national FGM prevention work.
Note:
The above figures are based on the Department's financial records. The proportion of Department’s budget spent on FGM is shown as a percentage of the Department’s total revenue spend.
- | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
FGM spend (£ million) | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Department Group spend (£ million) | 113,700.0 | 117,000.0 | 120,700.0 | 125,300.0 |
FGM spend as % of Department Group spend | 0.0008% | 0.0005% | 0.0004% | 0.0003% |
Spend for 2019-20 is not yet available as accounts have yet to be audited.