I was trying to say—and perhaps my voice was not particularly helping—that it was more that we had made a declaratory statement in the earlier amendment and I felt that it would be a negative declaratory statement if we were not to pass this amendment because of the message that it would send, not just to the 400,000 Dalits in this country but to those living in India.
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Alton of Liverpool
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 4 March 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.
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