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Birmingham and the West Midlands has the highest rate of forced marriages linked to Pakistan compared to anywhere else in the country.
The latest figures have been revealed after a mum was jailed for forcing her teenage daughter to marry a stranger in Pakistan.
The Office of National Statistics show that the West Midlands had the highest number of cases referred to the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) in the whole of the country.
There were 85 people who were given advice or support from the FMU in 2017, in the West Midlands, relating to the risk of forced marriages in Pakistan.
This is compared to 69 in the North West and 52 in Yorkshire and Humberside.