May be interested to note the following Parliamentary Questions that have been tabled in the House of Commons by Keith Vaz, the MP for Leicester East. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sikh ministers of religion have taken the International English Language Testing System certificate test this year? To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Sikh ministers of religion have been denied entry to the UK this year? Many in the Sikh community would regard the actions and the interpretation of rules by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as gross interference in Sikh religious affairs. John Randall the Conservative MP for Uxbridge has also raised the following interesting question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many violent attacks perpetrated against Sikhs have been recorded in each of the last five years; and in how many of these attacks race or religion was deemed to be a factor.

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