Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Marco Longhi Excerpts
Wednesday 7th February 2024

(9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kemi Badenoch Portrait Kemi Badenoch
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Of course we join the hon. Gentleman in that. I pay tribute to the work of the Minister for Equalities, who has been very supportive of the campaign—as are all of us in the ministerial team.

Marco Longhi Portrait Marco Longhi (Dudley North) (Con)
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T3. I hear more frequent use of the word “microaggression”. As an engineer, I know that “micro” means something extremely small. It is tiny. In fact, it is one millionth of whatever a standard aggression might be. Has the Minister a view on this, and does she recognise it as a new phenomenon? How big a priority might it be?

Kemi Badenoch Portrait Kemi Badenoch
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As my hon. Friend will know, I too am an engineer by training, and we engineers have to stick together. We are very sceptical when people introduce to the lexicon terms that are not helpful to the real work of tackling serious criminal behaviour. I am not a fan of that term, and my hon. Friend will be pleased to know that microaggressions training was removed from the Government Campus prospectus in November 2022.