| Heading: |
Circumcision: Regulation |
| Question ID: |
1789698 |
| UIN: |
HL6268 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4333 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Scriven
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| Asking Member handle: |
Paulscriven
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@Paulscriven
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what regulations govern practitioners who are not registered healthcare professionals performing non-therapeutic male circumcision. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-30 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
There is no legal requirement for an individual undertaking male circumcision to be medically trained or to have proven expertise, but any registered healthcare professional carrying out non-therapeutic male circumcision (NTMC) cannot optout of core dutie... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |