Female Genital Mutilation

Inquiry by the Home Affairs Committee, 17 December 2013 to 13 January 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Female genital mutilation: the case for a national action plan (3 July 2014)
• Female genital mutilation: the case for a national action plan: Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2014-15 (9 December 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 11 March 2014: Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali, Daughters of Eve; Christine Townsend and Muna Hassan, Integrate Bristol.
• 25 March 2014: Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, Crown Prosecution Service
• 29 April 2014: Commander Mak Chishty, Association of Chief Police Officers; Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley and Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Niven, Metropolitan Police; Saria Khalifa, Youth Programme Lead, Forward UK, and Lisa Harker, Director of Strategy, Policy and Evidence, NSPCC; Norman Baker MP, Minister of State for Crime Prevention, Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, and Edward Timpson MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
• 6 May 2014: Professor Nigel Mathers, Royal College of General Practitioners, Janet Fyle, Royal College of Midwives, and Professor Janice Rymer, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Obi Amadi, Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association, Dr Kerry Robinson, Consultant Paediatrician, Whittington Health, and Dr Comfort Momoh, African Well Women’s Clinic, Guys’ and St Thomas’ Hospitals; Linda Weil-Curiel, Lawyer at the Paris Bar, and Dr Emmanuelle Piet, French gynaecologist and County Medical Officer of Seine Saint-Denis