Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical professionals have completed Health Education England’s e-learning training sessions on female genital mutilation since 2016; and which e-learning training packages on female genital mutilation are available for medical professionals.

In total 11,497 people completed the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) e-learning training available on the e-learning for health website between January 2016 and February 2018.

The following modules are available in the FGM e-learning:

- An Introduction to FGM

- Legal issues regarding FGM in the UK

- FGM: Issues, presentation and management in women and around pregnancy

- Communication Skills for FGM consultations

- FGM: Issues, presentation and management in children and young women

- The Psychological Impact of FGM

Each of the above sessions are 20 to 30 minutes long and are designed to improve the knowledge and awareness amongst healthcare professionals of some of the issues which FGM has on women and children. Further information is at:

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/female-genital-mutilation/