Circumcision: Boys

(asked on 31st October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to introduce regulations for unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 5th November 2025

The Government has no plans to make changes to the regulatory framework for unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. No recent evidence-based assessment has been conducted in relation to the regulatory oversight of unanaesthetised non-therapeutic circumcision of boys.

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