Female Genital Mutilation
(asked on 18th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation.
This question was answered on 5th January 2015
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is an appalling crime. We are determined to stamp it out.
At the Girl Summit, in July, the Prime Minister announced our intention to introduce mandatory reporting for this unacceptable practice. We are currently consulting on how best to introduce this new duty.
Alerting the police to cases of FGM will allow them to investigate the facts and increase the number of perpetrators apprehended and prosecuted.