Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what analysis they have made of the Female Genital Mutilation Enhanced Data in relation to the support provided by the NHS to women and girls who have had or who are at risk of female genital mutilation.

National Health Service commissioners actively use Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) data to plan FGM services locally.

For example, in London, NHS England is piloting the triangulation of data with local population prevalence and police data, to evaluate the multi-agency approach to their FGM prevention work, and they will explore national roll-out of this approach in the new year.

In addition, NHS England is working with police and social care partners to overlay the information from the NHS Digital reports with other FGM information sources to create a more extensive picture of FGM. This in turn will build a broader understanding of FGM, and how best to use this combined information to commission appropriate services for girls and women affected.