Caste Discrimination Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Caste Discrimination

Lord Desai Excerpts
Wednesday 15th July 2015

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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My Lords, I do not have exact figures and names to hand but I am very happy to write to the noble Lord with them.

Lord Desai Portrait Lord Desai (Lab)
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My Lords, is not the problem that the majority Hindu and Sikh organisations are responsible for discrimination of the minority in their own ethnic origin community? I do not think that one should quietly concede the majority’s view in this respect.

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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I agree with the noble Lord that this can be a problem within communities of that nature, and is not generally something that is within the British culture.