HC Deb 20 March 1991 vol 188 c147W
Dr. Kim Howells

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures the Government are taking to curtail the activities of persons entering the country to perform circumcision operations on female children.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Female circumcision is a criminal offence. On convicting a person who does not have the right of abode of such an offence it would be open to a court to recommend deportation.