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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government is clear that we will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong suffering to women and girls.
The Home Office’s FGM unit delivers nationwide outreach on FGM. The Unit is providing outreach support to local areas and working to raise awareness of resources available to professionals, including training, best practice examples and information on legislation and policy. Resources include an e-learning package, various communication materials such as leaflets and posters highlighting the legislation and health impacts of FGM, and an online resource pack for local areas.
We ran a communications campaign between October 2018 and February 2019 to tackle FGM. The campaign sought to prevent FGM by changing attitudes among affected communities through raising awareness of the negative long-term health consequences of FGM. The campaign also raised awareness that FGM is a crime and encouraged communities to report via the NSPCC’s FGM helpline. The campaign supported the objectives of the cross-government Violence Against Women and Girls strategy.
Earlier this year, the Home Office trained around 1,300 professionals across the country on FGM and forced marriage protection orders. The events raised awareness of the scope and effectiveness of the orders, along with a practical guide to applying, with the aim of encouraging professionals to always consider them in any safeguarding plans.
","Louth and Horncastle","Victoria Atkins","2019-07-02T16:04:46.197Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1133748/answer","Biography information for Victoria Atkins","1","Home Office","Home Office","2019-06-20","Female Genital Mutilation","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to increase education and awareness of female genital mutilation in the UK.","false","Biography information for Ross Thomson","Aberdeen South","Ross Thomson","267358" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832900","Home Office","false","2018-02-05","We want the UK to be the safest place in the world to be online. Anything that is illegal offline should be illegal online.
The Government and law enforcement agencies take the unlawful advertising and sales of drugs on the internet very seriously. Tough enforcement is a fundamental part of the Government’s drug strategy and we are taking coordinated action to tackle illegal drugs alongside other criminal activity.
Law enforcement agencies continue to work with internet providers to shut down UK-based websites found to be committing offences, building on work already underway to tackle the sale and supply of illegal drugs in the UK and overseas and tackle associated organised crime.
","Louth and Horncastle","Victoria Atkins","2018-02-05T16:15:16.217Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832900/answer","Biography information for Victoria Atkins","1","Home Office","Home Office","2018-01-29","Drugs: Internet","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to prevent the sale of illegal drugs online.","false","Biography information for Ross Thomson","Aberdeen South","Ross Thomson","125216" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832902","Home Office","false","2018-02-05","The Government continues to work with the police and partners, including retailers to ensure we have strong controls in place to prevent sales of knives to under 18s. In March 2016 we agreed a set of commitments with major retailers including Amazon UK and Ebay UK to prevent the underage sales of knives more generally in their stores and online. The commitments include a requirement to have robust measures in place to ensure age verification for sales, in-store and online.
In addition, on 14 October 2017, the Government launched a consultation on new laws on offensive weapons which included proposals to restrict the online sales of knives to further prevent sales to under 18s. The consultation was closed on 9 December and we are now considering the responses.
","Louth and Horncastle","Victoria Atkins","2018-02-05T16:22:42.943Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832902/answer","Biography information for Victoria Atkins","1","Home Office","Home Office","2018-01-29","Offensive Weapons: Internet","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to prevent the illegal sale of knives and other offensive weapons online.","false","Biography information for Ross Thomson","Aberdeen South","Ross Thomson","125218" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832910","Home Office","false","2018-02-05","The Home Office constantly reviews its workforce capacity and capabilities in order to deliver the Government’s agenda and meet operational demands. We continue to assess how our priorities will impact on the workforce and capabilities required beyond the 2017/18 financial year.
","Louth and Horncastle","Victoria Atkins","2018-02-05T16:12:35.017Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/832910/answer","Biography information for Victoria Atkins","1","Home Office","Home Office","2018-01-29","Civil Servants","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of UK Home Civil Servants there will be in December 2018.","false","Biography information for Ross Thomson","Aberdeen South","Ross Thomson","125226"