At the start of Business in the House of Commons Oliver Heald, the Conservative MP for North-East Hertfordshire and Shadow Leader of the House in an unprecedented move asked if Phil Woolas MP, the Deputy Leader of the House would join him to welcome the Sikh community to Westminster today. He also asked him if he had seen Early Day Motion 1890, which commemorates the thousands of victims of the anti-Sikh pogroms of November 1984 and calls for an inquiry into what happened at that time. Oliver Heald also asked if it would be possible to have a debate on this subject in the short amount of time remaining of the 2003-04 Parliamentary Session. The Deputy Leader confirmed on behalf of the UK Government that he had read EDM 1890 and fully supported the hon. Gentleman's remarks about the Sikh community.