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Female Genital Mutilation

EDM number 84 in 2006-07, proposed by Lorely Burt on 15/11/2006.

That this House notes with grave concern that 279,500 women in the United Kingdom have been subjected to female genital mutilation and that every year a further 6,500 girls in the United Kingdom are at risk of being subjected to female genital mutilation despite the practice having been made illegal in 1985; further notes that many young women are being taken back to their family's country of origin in order to have female genital mutilation performed on them, despite this having been made illegal as a result of the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003; is disturbed by recent reports that families are clubbing together to fly people from Africa into the United Kingdom to perform female genital mutilation on their daughters; applauds the Metropolitan Police Force's specialist unit on female genital mutilation which has engaged in over 20 successful interventions; congratulates Esther Fornah on finally winning her appeal, following the House of Lords' judgement, to be granted asylum on the grounds that she would be subjected to female genital mutilation if she returned to Sierra Leone; is disquieted by the fact that no prosecutions have resulted from the two pieces of legislation that have made female genital mutilation a crime; calls for the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to implement the precedent set in the case of Esther Fornah more rigorously; and calls for police to be granted the power to investigate and for prosecutions to be made in suspected cases of female genital mutilation without the need for victims to make a formal complaint.

This motion has been signed by a total of 93 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lorely Burt15/11/2006SolihullLiberal DemocratProposed
Michael Penning15/11/2006Hemel HempsteadConservativeSeconded
Andrew George15/11/2006St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Heath15/11/2006Somerton & FromeLiberal DemocratSeconded
Bob Spink16/11/2006Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Bob Russell16/11/2006ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lynne Jones16/11/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Mark Williams16/11/2006CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming16/11/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke16/11/2006Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Glenda Jackson16/11/2006Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Lady Hermon16/11/2006North DownUUPSigned
Roger Williams20/11/2006Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams20/11/2006Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams20/11/2006ConwyLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley20/11/2006Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Mike Hancock20/11/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew20/11/2006StroudLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore20/11/2006HendonLabourSigned
Paul Holmes20/11/2006ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable20/11/2006TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan20/11/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Gary Streeter21/11/2006South West DevonConservativeSigned
John Leech21/11/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Angela Watkinson21/11/2006UpminsterConservativeSigned
Keith Vaz21/11/2006Leicester EastLabourSigned
Norman Baker21/11/2006LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Cousins21/11/2006Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn21/11/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
Derek Conway21/11/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Albert Owen21/11/2006Ynys MLabourSigned
Joan Humble21/11/2006Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Greg Pope21/11/2006HyndburnLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson22/11/2006North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil22/11/2006Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Katy Clark22/11/2006North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Phil Willis22/11/2006Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham22/11/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Martin Caton22/11/2006GowerLabourSigned
Colin Breed22/11/2006South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake22/11/2006Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen O'Brien22/11/2006EddisburyConservativeSigned
Lembit 22/11/2006MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Iris Robinson22/11/2006StrangfordDUPSigned
Nick Harvey22/11/2006North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Lazarowicz22/11/2006Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/11/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Laura Moffatt22/11/2006CrawleyLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty22/11/2006Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer23/11/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
David Howarth23/11/2006CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Anderson23/11/2006Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
David Hamilton23/11/2006MidlothianLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard23/11/2006WalthamstowLabourSigned
Paul Flynn23/11/2006Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis23/11/2006Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Janet Dean23/11/2006BurtonLabourSigned
Edward Davey23/11/2006Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell23/11/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Lepper23/11/2006Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins23/11/2006TamworthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley23/11/2006Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
David Heyes23/11/2006Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Evan Harris23/11/2006Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Morgan23/11/2006Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Charles Walker27/11/2006BroxbourneConservativeSigned
Ian Austin27/11/2006Dudley NorthLabourSigned
Robert Key27/11/2006SalisburyConservativeSigned
Sandra Gidley27/11/2006RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Karen Buck28/11/2006Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
Mark Hunter28/11/2006CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis29/11/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jo Swinson29/11/2006East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson30/11/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds30/11/2006Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Andrew Stunell30/11/2006Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Roberta Blackman-Woods30/11/2006City of DurhamLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser04/12/2006DoverLabourSigned
Bill Etherington04/12/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Bercow05/12/2006BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Malcolm Bruce05/12/2006GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lyn Brown06/12/2006West HamLabourSigned
Gerald Kaufman07/12/2006Manchester, GortonLabourSigned
George Mudie07/12/2006Leeds EastLabourSigned
Kerry McCarthy07/12/2006Bristol EastLabourSigned
Susan Kramer11/12/2006Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
David Maclean18/12/2006Penrith and The BorderConservativeSigned
Dari Taylor11/01/2007Stockton SouthLabourSigned
Nicholas Clegg22/01/2007Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Caroline Spelman24/01/2007MeridenConservativeSigned
John Barrett19/02/2007Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Helen GoodmanUnknownWithdrawn
Angela EagleUnknownWithdrawn

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