Khalid Mahmood’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour Party

Khalid Mahmood MP in Parliament

Far-Right Violence and Online Extremism

Commons debates

May I send my condolences to the families of the deceased and injured in New Zealand and the Netherlands, and praise the actions of New Zealand’s Prime Minister? Will the Minister hold the...

Privatised Probation System

Commons debates

After the failure of Working Links and in the light of the National Audit Office’s damning report into the implementation of Transforming Rehabilitation the first time round by the former...

Knife Crime

Commons debates

I agree in principle with multi-agency working. I know that it works, because when I got elected in 2001, it worked. When the police were properly funded, when Sure Start centres were properly...

Human Rights

Oral Answers to Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Khalid Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Was the Minister as appalled as I was last week that it took an order from the European Court of Human Rights to force the Orbán Government in Hungary to provide food to the starving asylum...

Deprivation of Citizenship Status

Commons debates

My apologies, Mr Speaker. The Home Secretary has no idea what is going on with TPIMs. How many people who have been radicalised are having no action taken against them in relation to their...

Deprivation of Citizenship Status

Commons debates

I have been tackling radicalisation and terrorism since 9/11. What sets us apart from those radicalisers and terrorists and their barbaric ideology is the rule of law. We need to tackle them with...

Iraq

Oral Answers to Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Khalid Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The Government are supposed to provide the House with an update on the campaign against Daesh every quarter. The last I checked, the duration of a quarter is 92 days, but the most recent Daesh...

Ukraine-Russia Relations

Commons debates

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I also thank the right hon. Member for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale) for securing it. The shadow Foreign Secretary, my right hon. Friend the...

Salisbury Attack

Oral Answers to Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Khalid Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

In reaching the sanctions agreement he referred to, I am sure the Secretary of State was grateful for the support of the former eastern bloc countries, which he welcomed to Chevening before the...

Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill

Commons debates

That is a key part of this Bill because it will allow BAME communities to discuss this issue. I know that there are barriers in terms of some religious thought on this matter, and we are working...

Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill

Commons debates

I commend the bravery of Keira’s father in making that decision at the very difficult point of the end of her life. Importantly, the Bill will allow families to discuss this issue before...

Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman is making an impassioned, fantastic speech. I do not know if he is aware that I have had a transplant. It came from a friend, a live donor, rather than from a deceased person....

Business Banking Fraud - [Mr Laurence Robertson in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

The point is not whether the funds can be squeezed out of current budgets—police budgets are under huge stress at the moment. This is not a one-off; it is a long-standing issue about...

Business Banking Fraud - [Mr Laurence Robertson in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is always a pleasure to serve under your stewardship, Mr Robertson. I thank the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Mr Wragg) for raising this issue, which is very important, particularly for our...

Police: Financial Sustainability

Commons debates

With a 59% increase in violent crime, a 70% increase in murders and an increase in occasions when police are unable to attend serious disorder events on time, my community in Birmingham and the...

“Appropriate consent” to adult transplantation activities: England

Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill

Khalid Mahmood made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the Minister for making that point. Under the current system, when people have a donation card, it is still the responsibility of the next of kin to make the decision to donate. In most...

HMP Birmingham

Commons debates

With your permission, Mr Speaker, I will first provide some information about my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Shabana Mahmood). The prison is in her constituency, but she is...

Leaving the EU: Foreign Policy Co-operation

Oral Answers to Questions - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Khalid Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I am delighted that the Secretary of State is taking this question. I hope he will answer a very simple yes or no question that his predecessor always refused to answer: does the new Secretary of...

Russia and the Council of Europe - [Mr George Howarth in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I think the hon. Member for Henley, who secured this excellent debate, made the point—and it is the essential point that I am trying to make as well—that if we completely isolate...

Russia and the Council of Europe - [Mr George Howarth in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is always a pleasure to serve under your stewardship, Mr Howarth. This important debate, secured by the hon. Member for Henley (John Howell), has roused strong passions and concerns about the...