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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of acid attacks were recorded in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many such incidents led to prosecutions.
[118865]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of acid attacks were recorded in the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many such incidents led to prosecutions.
[118865]
The information requested is not available from the police recorded crime statistics collected by the Home Office. The data series does not hold information on acid attacks.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether she has had recent discussions with her international counterparts on the monitoring and prevention of acid attacks.
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To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether she has had recent discussions with her international counterparts on the monitoring and prevention of acid attacks.
[118866]
On a visit to Pakistan in March 2012, the Secretary of State publically reiterated the UK Government's commitment to ending acid violence and to working to empower and protect women and girls in Pakistan and other countries where this kind of violence exists.
DFID currently funds Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI), a UK-based specialist international non-governmental organisation that has been tackling acid violence in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Uganda, Nepal and Cambodia for almost 10 years. This funding includes support for monitoring and prevention of acid attacks. The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State, the hon. Stephen O'Brien and I, both underlined UK support for ASTI's work when we visited Acid Survivors Foundation Bangladesh in 2011.