{"id":485,"date":"2018-02-17T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:14:04","slug":"fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"FGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;\">\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;\">\n<li id=\"contribution-63E47295-C7C3-475E-B9CC-B2BB1A9D3844\" class=\"highlight fadeHighlight\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-clip: content-box; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; transition: all 1s ease-in-out; padding: 10px 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 705px;\">\n<h2 class=\"memberLink\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em;\"><a class=\"nohighlight\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #428bca;\" title=\"View member's contributions\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/search\/MemberContributions?house=Commons&amp;memberId=39\">Mr Whittingdale<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 hidden-sm hidden-xs\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">\n<div class=\"share-icon\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: url('https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Assets\/svg\/share.svg'); padding-left: 16px; height: 18px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -3px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"link-to-contribution link-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: gray; padding-left: 10px;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-02-08\/debates\/70A9662C-8EB9-4ED7-91F5-795FEDE3C76B\/FemaleGenitalMutilationProsecutionRates#contribution-63E47295-C7C3-475E-B9CC-B2BB1A9D3844\" rel=\"popover\" data-placement=\"top\" data-hop-url-shorten-url=\"\/UrlShortener\/ShorternUrl\" data-hop-popover=\"http:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-02-08\/debates\/70A9662C-8EB9-4ED7-91F5-795FEDE3C76B\/FemaleGenitalMutilationProsecutionRates#contribution-63E47295-C7C3-475E-B9CC-B2BB1A9D3844\" data-original-title=\"Share this contribution\"><span class=\"share-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;Share this contribution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inner\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"contribution col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: left; width: 705px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p class=\"hs_Para\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">I welcome this week\u2019s announcement of extra funding to tackle FGM in Africa and beyond. With over 5,000 cases reported in a year in this country, does my hon. and learned Friend share my concern that we are still to bring a successful prosecution?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 right-column\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"statement col-md-9 hs_ColumnNumber\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 705px; line-height: 1.6em;\">\n<p class=\"hs_ColumnNumber\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;\"><span id=\"1635\" class=\"column-number column-only\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;\" data-column-number=\"1635\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 right-column\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;\">\n<li id=\"contribution-3B48E8FB-D53F-49F3-B5CA-32D8D05BE830\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 705px;\">\n<h2 class=\"memberLink\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 1.2em;\"><a class=\"nohighlight\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #428bca;\" title=\"View member's contributions\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/search\/MemberContributions?house=Commons&amp;memberId=4106\">The Solicitor General<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-3 hidden-sm hidden-xs\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; float: left; width: 235px;\">\n<div class=\"share-icon\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: url('https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Assets\/svg\/share.svg'); padding-left: 16px; height: 18px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: -3px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"link-to-contribution link-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: gray; padding-left: 10px;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-02-08\/debates\/70A9662C-8EB9-4ED7-91F5-795FEDE3C76B\/FemaleGenitalMutilationProsecutionRates#contribution-3B48E8FB-D53F-49F3-B5CA-32D8D05BE830\" rel=\"popover\" data-placement=\"top\" data-hop-url-shorten-url=\"\/UrlShortener\/ShorternUrl\" data-hop-popover=\"http:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2018-02-08\/debates\/70A9662C-8EB9-4ED7-91F5-795FEDE3C76B\/FemaleGenitalMutilationProsecutionRates#contribution-3B48E8FB-D53F-49F3-B5CA-32D8D05BE830\" data-original-title=\"Share this contribution\"><span class=\"share-text\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">&nbsp;Share this contribution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inner\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"contribution col-md-9\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; float: left; width: 705px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1em; word-wrap: break-word;\">\n<p class=\"hs_Para\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;\">My right hon. Friend is correct to raise some of the obstacles that prosecutors have faced over the years, and barriers have caused real issues in the investigation of such cases. I am glad to say that a case is currently before the courts\u2014I will not comment on it\u2014but it is also important to remember that protection and prevention is vital, and our FGM protection orders are being used to good effect, with 179 having been granted to the end of September last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Whittingdale &nbsp; &nbsp;Share this contribution I welcome this week\u2019s announcement of extra funding to tackle FGM in Africa and beyond. With over 5,000 cases reported in a year in this country, does my hon. and learned Friend share my concern that we are still to bring a successful prosecution? &nbsp; &nbsp; \u200b &nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}