Sikh woman MP in UK House panel |
The first Sikh woman MP in Britain, Preet Kaur Gill, has been selected as a member of an influential parliamentary select committee which scrutinises the work of the home office. The Labour MP, who won the Birmingham Edgbaston seat in the UK elections 2017, will be one of 11 MPs on the cross-party home affairs committee, which investigates the spending, policy and administration of the ministerial department. Gill said she had put herself forward for the role and was delighted to hear she had been selected. This committee had ceased to exist when Parliament was dissolved. Now it is being re-appointed. Previous inquiries have looked at extremism, hate crime, immigration, asylum, human trafficking, drugs, prostitution, counter-terrorism, extradition and the police. It publishes reports and the Government must respond to its recommendations. The 44-year-old said other topics that interested her were domestic violence and hate crime. There has been a big increase in hate crime in the UK often targeted at Sikhs who wear turbans and have beards. The government`s hate crime action plan has been focused on the Abrahamic faith and has ignored Sikhs. She wants to make sure the Government is doing enough to address this.
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