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House of Lords

Data on the House of Lords is more difficult to collate and there is no definitive list that exists. Sir Satyendra Sinha was the first Indian and probably the first non-white peer who became Baron Sinha of Rajpur, a hereditary peer in 1919. Learie Constantine, was the first peer of African descent who was a well-known Trinidadian cricketer and lawyer. He became Baron Constantine of Maraval and Nelson in 1969. Based on information from various unofficial sources, including Operation Black Vote, there are currently 44 minority ethnic members of the House of Lords, 5.4% of the total membership of 801 peers.

Ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords by gender and party/group October 2013

Party Female Male
Conservative 3 3
Labour 3 8
Liberal Democrat
Independent 1 5
Bishops 0 1
All 15 29

 

Out of the 44 Peers, at least 15 are said to be of Hindu origin.

Lord Bhatia (Independent)

Lord Desai (Labour)

Lord Dholakia (Lib Dem)

Lord Bhattacharyya (Labour)

Baroness Flather (Crossbench)

Lord Kakkar (Crossbench)

Lord Loomba (Lib Dem)

Lord Parekh (Labour)

Lord Patel (Crossbench)

Lord Patel of Bradford (Labour)

Lord Paul (Independent)

Lord Popat (Conservative)

Baroness Prashar (Crossbench)

Lord Verjee (Lib Dem)

Baroness Verma (Conservative)

Ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords, October 2013

Peer Party

Lord Adebowal (Crossbench)

Baroness Afshar (Crossbench)

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Conservative)

Lord Ahmed (Independent)

Lord Alli (Labour)

Baroness Benjamin (Lib Dem)

Lord Bilimoria (Crossbench)

Lord Darzi of Denham (Labour)

Baroness Falkner of Margravine (Lib Dem)

Lord Hameed (Crossbench)

Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick (Crossbench)

Baroness Howells of St Davids (Labour)

Baroness Hussein-Ece (Lib Dem)

Lord Hussain (Lib Dem)

Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon (Labour)

Baroness Manzoor (Lib Dem)

Lord Morris of Handsworth (Labour)

Lord Ouseley (Crossbench)

Lord Patel of Blackburn (Labour)

Lord Rana (Crossbench)

Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)

Lord Sheikh (Conservative)

Lord Singh (Independent)

Lord Taylor of Warwick (Independent)

Baroness Uddin (Independent)

Baroness Warsi (Conservative)

Lord Wei (Conservative)

York, Archbishop (John Sentamu) (Bishops)

Baroness Young of Hornsey (Crossbench)

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