You asked
REQUEST ONE
Please can you supply me data on how many cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) were reported to you by each police force in the UK each month between 31 October 2015 and today’s date, stratified, if possible, by age of alleged victim, police force and occupation of person making the report?
REQUEST TWO
Please can you supply me data on how many cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) were reported to you by each police force in the UK each month between 31 October 2014 and 31 October 2015, stratified, if possible, by age of alleged victim, police force and occupation of person making the report?
The cases of FGM I refer to are those that fulfil the definition set out here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mandatory-reporting-of-female-genital-mutilation-procedural-information
We said
Until March 2012, Female Genital Mutilation offences were counted under the police recorded offence category ‘8K Poisoning or female genital mutilation’. However, on 01 April 2012 a new offence category was introduced - '8N Assault with injury'. This category subsumed offences previously counted as offence 8K. Whilst this new count incorporates incidents of female genital mutilation, it also includes other offences as well.
ONS have a count of all offences recorded under code 8N for England and Wales as a whole, but cannot extract only the incidents of female genital mutilation as unfortunately we do not hold this breakdown of information.
Although ONS publish some statistics based on police recorded crime data, the data is actually the responsibility of the Home Office. If you contact them directly they may be able to provide you with the information you require. Their email address is crimeandpolicing@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk