National Institute Of Economic And Social Research Study Of Caste-Based Discrimination In The UK

EDM number 572 in 2010-12, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 20/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Equality and Ethnic groups.

That this House notes that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has been commissioned to carry out in-depth research to examine the extent of caste-based prejudice and discrimination in the UK; welcomes a provision in the Equality Act 2010 inserted by amendment of the Equality Bill, which enabled the Government to make caste-based discrimination illegal in the UK; and calls on the current Government to share the findings of the research in order to permit the outlawing of discrimination on the grounds of caste.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.