HC Deb 12 February 1998 vol 306 c357W
Mr. Rowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations of female circumcision were carried out in the NHS in(a) 1995, (b) 1996 and (c) 1997. [28486]

Ms Jowell

None. The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985, makes it an offence to carry out the practice. It also makes it an offence for anyone to aid, abet, counsel or procure the carrying out of these procedures by any other person on her own body.

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