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	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to tackle (a) forced marriage and (b) female genital mutilation.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	James Berry
	uin	900728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Girl Summit, hosted by the Prime Minister and UNICEF in July 2014, underlined the United Kingdom’s leadership in stamping out forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).</p><p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence and the first conviction was secured last month. We also introduced a package of new measures to tackle FGM through the Serious Crime Act 2015 including victim anonymity, mandatory reporting of FGM, a new offence of parental liability and the introduction of FGM protection orders.</p><p>The Government recognises that legislation alone is not enough to tackle FGM and forced marriage, and our specialist FGM and Forced Marriage Units lead and deliver wide-ranging prevention and awareness-raising work.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2015 16:28:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4489 label Biography information for James Berry

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	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Membership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the UK last nominated a member of the expert committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and for what reason she has not made a nomination in relation to forthcoming vacancies.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
	uin	3995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The UK government has not put forward a candidate for election to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women since signing the Convention in 1981. Whilst nominating a candidate has been considered, a variety of reasons such as the timing of the election and the resources required from across Government have meant that we have not yet done so.</p><p> </p><p><br> The UK strongly supports the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) against Women and it is committed to advancing women’s rights. We are fully committed to the CEDAW process, including submitting reports and participating in the oral examination, and are fully engaged with the UN and the Committee. UK nationals are well represented on other UN treaty monitoring bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2015 16:33:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart