PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage (1 March 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2016 to Question 26129, in which constituencies the £380,000 that the Government spent on community organisations preventing female genital mutilation and forced marriage in 2014-15 was spent.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

Answer

In 2014/15, the Government provided over £380,000 to community organisations through the Home Office’s Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Community Engagement Initiative and the Department for Communities and Local Government’s FGM and forced marriage prevention projects.

Many of the projects had regional or national remits, or both, meaning it is not possible to breakdown the project spend by constituency. However, areas covered included:

Birmingham

Leeds

Bolton

Liverpool

Bradford

London

Bristol

Milton Keynes

Cambridgeshire

Nottinghamshire

Cardiff

Oxford

Coventry

Portsmouth

Derby

Rotherham

Essex

Solihull

Exeter

Stoke-on-Trent

Gloucester

Surrey

Greater Manchester

Wales

Hertfordshire

Yorkshire


Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
7 March 2016

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