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.

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