In September 2011 she said that the Bangladeshi and Pakistani immigrant communities and including white British in the United Kingdom of having a large number of children in order to be able to claim more benefits. She said the issue did not apply to British families of Indian origin as the Indian families had a different mentality from that of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities in the UK, desiring that their children should be educated. She put an amendment that the first two children should get full benefits, the third one half and taper down to a quarter for the fourth. There should be no restriction on the number of children but parents should take responsibility for their own children. Labour Party MP Michael Dugher condemned her and said that her views were unacceptable.