Correspondence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: LIMELIGHT, a joint operation between Border Force and the police, continues to ra ise awareness of FGM and forced
Oral Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: But in areas like domestic service, forced marriage and sex work, it is very difficult to identify it
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Scottish Government Initial Response to the Concluding Observations issued by the UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildFound: The Forced Marriage etc.
Mentions:
1: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) fund, £7,719,700 is provided to women’s aid groups, and we will help to fund the domestic abuse and forced - Speech Link
2: Brown, Siobhian (SNP - Ayr) Prosecutions are brought by the independent Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, and the courts - Speech Link
Found: Library Debate Pack , Members of the Ahmadiyya religious community continue to be a major target for prosecutions
Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) Nevertheless, the law that he is proposing would very easily lead to exactly the prosecutions that he - Speech Link
2: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) A number of practices are illegal in this country, such as forced marriage, which is something that the - Speech Link
3: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) I thought back to when this House debated same-sex marriage in 2012. - Speech Link
4: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) No one should ever be forced to change who they are, who they love and what they believe in. - Speech Link
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: Inspection report on Home Office country of origin information, Albania and Pakistan (October 2023)Found: Not trusting the system of protection, she was forced to flee the country.
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: Angiolini Inquiry Part 1 ReportFound: However, ongoing criminal prosecutions against Couzens and ongoing misconduct proceedings relevant to
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: Angiolini Inquiry Part 1 ReportFound: However, ongoing criminal prosecutions against Couzens and ongoing misconduct proceedings relevant to
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Stewart of Dirleton on 29 March 2023 (HL6584), when the government-funded feasibility study on the prevalence of female genital mutilation and forced marriage in England and Wales will be published.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Since April 2019, the Home Office has required police forces to provide quarterly data returns on the number of offences they have recorded as being related to ‘honour’-based abuse, which includes FGM. In October 2023, the Home Office published the fourth set of these annual statistics, which included 84 offences relating to FGM covering the year to March 2023. Data on prosecutions is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.
Between April 2022 and March 2023, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) recorded one offence which was charged by the police under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. This was discontinued at its first hearing due to an incorrect charge submitted by the police. Separately, in October 2023, a defendant was found guilty of aiding the female genital mutilation of a non-UK person contrary to section 3 of the Act. This defendant was originally charged in 2018.
In April 2023, the Home Office commissioned the University of Birmingham to conduct a feasibility study to determine whether it is possible to produce a robust prevalence estimate of FGM and forced marriage. This work is ongoing and decisions about next steps will be taken in due course.