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91575

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	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what discussions the Government has had with the Equalities and Human Rights Commission on research into caste discrimination.
	tabling member constituency	Islington North
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Corbyn
	uin	209040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>Since April 2013, the Government has had numerous discussions with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (the EHRC) about research into caste discrimination.</p><p> </p><p>Most of these discussions have concerned the work leading up to the EHRC-commissioned research reports – the ‘Socio-legal review’ and the ‘Experts’ Seminar and Stakeholder Workshop’. These reports looked at issues surrounding caste in Britain and were published in February 2014 as part of its Caste in Britain project. Discussion took place about the reports themselves and about the planned follow-up research which the EHRC was initially due to undertake to determine the extent of any caste discrimination in Britain but which it subsequently withdrew from earlier this year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 13/10/2014 13:51:24 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	185 label Biography information for Jeremy Corbyn

91574

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Castes: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, when she expects the Government's programme of research into caste discrimination to be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Islington North
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Corbyn
	uin	209041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government has recently commissioned a consortium of TNS, BRMB and NIESR to conduct a feasibility study into how it might be possible to estimate the extent of any caste-based discrimination in Britain. The consortium is due to present its final report to Government in November.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 13/10/2014 13:52:12 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	185 label Biography information for Jeremy Corbyn