HC Deb 23 November 1992 vol 214 c465W
Miss Lestor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how may prosecutions were brought against medical practitioners who carried out illegal female genital mutilation operations in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991.

Mr. Jack

Records available centrally show no prosecutions in England and Wales from 1986 to 1991 —provisional—under the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985.