FGM, female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation report debated
28 January 2015
Westminster Hall hosts a debate on the Home Affairs Committee's report into female genital mutilation, and the Government response, on Thursday 29 January.
- Report: Female genital mutilation: the case for a national action plan
- Government Response: Female genital mutilation: the case for a national action plan (PDF 503 KB) (external website)
- Inquiry: Female Genital Mutilation
- Follow-up evidence session - 27 January 2015
- Home Affairs Committee
Watch the debate
Thursday 29 January 2015, Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster
At 1.30pm
There are as many as 170,000 women and girls living in the UK who have had to undergo FGM and a further 65,000 young girls face the prospect of FGM in the future.
It has taken 29 years since the criminalisation of FGM for the first prosecutions to be brought.