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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 December 2025

Debate

Women’s Health Strategy

Contribution

My Lords, does the Minister agree that the women’s health strategy should be clear that female genital mutilation is an abhorrent practice and a crime? Has she seen the article in the British Medical Journal suggesting that it should be rebranded as “female genital practices” and somehow normalised? Will she be clear that the Government will have no truck with this and that the Department of Health will produce a proper rebuttal, so that this argument does not gain any traction in our country? It is a worry that this is happening to young British girls, whether here or overseas. We have to stop the practice and carry on the good work that the Government I led put in place.

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