Yesterday was the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. I was very pleased to host a very well-attended conference here in the Senedd on this appalling subject. It was organised by BAWSO, but there were important delegates from NSPCC, Welsh Women’s Aid and from different parts of Wales as well as England. I think this is not just about the 30 million girls who are at risk worldwide of being mutilated before their fifteenth birthday, but it is about preventing this happening to the girls living in this country as well. According to Dr Chimba, who leads on female genital mutilation for BAWSO, there are some 2,000 women in Wales who are living with either full or partial removal of their genitalia. If it was men having their penises cut off, I’m sure we’d all be giving this a very high priority.

One of the issues that were raised at the conference was the absence of accurate data about Wales, because there was quite a lot of collated data about England and Wales. I understand that, this week, NHS England is going to be releasing the data that it has collated from different parts of the NHS, from nurses, midwives, GPs and anybody else who’s got accurate information on this. I just wondered whether you could give us an update on when this information may be available in Wales, because it’s really important in understanding what specialist service we ought to be commissioning in Wales, as opposed to sending people to other parts of England. Do we have the critical mass to justify such a specialist service?