Tulip made a member of UK parliamentary committee on women and equalities issues

British-Bangladeshi MP Tulip Siddiq has been made a member of newly formed UK Parliament’s Select Committee on women and equalities issues.

UK Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 30 June 2015, 07:40 PM
Updated : 30 June 2015, 07:40 PM

The House nominated her on Tuesday.

Conservative MP Maria Miller was elected Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee on June 18.

The House of Commons appointed the committee on June 3 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government Equalities Office, according to the parliament’s website.

It says the Committee fills “a gap” in previous accountability arrangements.

Britain has never had a parliamentary committee who looked after whether parliamentary policy working to take care of issues of ethnic minorities and women are served in terms of equalities. 

The Committee joins over 30 parliaments, including Spanish, Scottish, Finnish and European Union Parliament, with dedicated equalities committees, the website adds.

The UK Parliament, which now has 29 percent women MPs, introduced its first dedicated Select Committee following years of campaigning by the MPs.

Siddiq, granddaughter of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the May 7 polls on a Labour ticket.

She is the third British-Bangladeshi to be elected to the House.