My Lords, I want just to clarify a point. Perhaps I did not make myself clear, but what I meant was that in the debates around FGM at the time, it was argued that criminalisation would force the practice underground. There is an area of comparison because the point about this issue is that it is underground already.
Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Hussein-Ece
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 12 November 2013.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill.
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