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<p>The Minister for Crime Prevention is chairing a cross government FGM roundtable
meeting on 10 November, to which the National Policing Lead on Female Genital Mutilation,
the Director of Public Prosecutions and other key stakeholders are invited. The meeting
will take stock of progress in implementing the extensive package of announcements
to tackle FGM made at the Girl Summit hosted by the PM on 22 July. This includes the
recently published NHS statistics on cases of FGM and how they can be promoted, alongside
new FGM prevalence data, part-funded by the Home Office and published by City University
and Equality Now in July 2014.</p><p>The roundtable will also review current progress
on police and Crown Prosecution Service activity to tackle FGM.</p><p> </p>
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