‘Quaker Question Time’
Friends will be able to put questions to the shadow secretary of state for International Development and Britain’s first female Sikh MP.
The Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill will feature in the second of the ‘Quaker Question Time’ events, which will take place online in June. Friends will be able to put questions to the shadow secretary of state for International Development and Britain’s first female Sikh MP, who, according to Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), has been an advocate in parliament for many issues of concern to Quakers in Britain.
The MP for Birmingham Edgbaston has criticised the UK government for cuts to foreign aid. ‘Not only are the government slashing the @VSO_Intl budget, forcing them to cease operations in 14 countries and make hundreds of people redundant but with days to go they’ve left them in the dark about the extent of the cuts,’ she tweeted. An inquiry at the House of Lords revealed that funding of £47 million for Voluntary Service Overseas was set to shrivel to as little as £11 million from April unless the government changed course.
Preet Kaur Gill has also called for an inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The session follows last July’s Quaker Question Time with historian Katharine DeFrance and Carla Denyer, Green Party councillor for the Bristol ward of Clifton Down. Carla Denyer is most noted for her lead role in bringing about Bristol City Council’s declaration of a climate emergency in 2018, which paved the way for similar declarations across the UK.
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