Khalid Mahmood’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour

Khalid Mahmood MP in Parliament

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

With your permission, Mr Deputy Speaker, I will briefly pay my respects to Councillor Keith Linnecor, whose funeral I attended this morning. He served in my constituency for 24 years, and he was...

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

I appreciate what my right hon. Friend is saying about the young leaders programme. We have more than 160 nationalities living in Birmingham. The Commonwealth programme will be hugely welcome and...

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman may not have a direct connection with Birmingham, but I can inform him that the chief executive of the Commonwealth games, Ian Reid, was also chief executive of the...

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

The Mayor and the West Midlands Combined Authority are trying to introduce a bendy bus under the current diesel structure that would cost £35 million just in the Perry Barr area. Would it...

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

I thank the Minister for giving way. We have just sent to Pakistan an England kabaddi team to play in the competition there. Will he consider in the future introducing kabaddi as a national sport...

Birmingham Commonwealth Games Bill [Lords]

Commons debates

Recent Violence in India

Commons debates

I find the hon. Gentleman’s words rather facile. We have brought him to the Dispatch Box. I raised the issue with the Leader of the House on Thursday, and the Minister is here now. This...

Recent Violence in India

Commons debates

(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on recent violence in India and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Business of the House

Commons debates

Over the past few days, Delhi has been burning at the hands of Hindu extremism. Twenty-four people have been deemed dead so far and hundreds have been injured in this extreme violence. The Indian...

Syria: Security Situation

Commons debates

Thank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. I also thank the Chair of the Defence Committee, the right hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), for securing it. I welcome the...

Apprenticeships: SMEs - [Philip Davies in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I appreciate what the Minister has said, but the central question is this. When these apprenticeship training schools or colleges are set up, the capital support that they need for the equipment...

Apprenticeships: SMEs - [Philip Davies in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is always a privilege to serve under your stewardship, Mr Davies. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) for raising this crucial debate. It is particularly important to me,...

Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill

Commons debates

Again, I concur with the right hon. Member. As for the Government moving forward on this, for the past 10 years we have not paid enough attention to what has gone on. We need to look at this...

Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill

Commons debates

The right hon. Member speaks from experience of these issues. He is quite right to say that. It is very difficult for those who do not understand religion to put people into places of religious...

Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Member for his contribution. How do we assess and work with these radicalised people? A lot has been made of deradicalisation, but we need the right people, theologically...

Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill

Commons debates

It is always a privilege to follow the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes). I was privileged to work with him when he was Minister for Security—a time he...

Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill

Commons debates

Does my hon. Friend agree that that lack of prison officers, the privatisation of some of our prisons, and having those young officers, has led to problems in Her Majesty’s Prison...

Middle East Peace Plan

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Khalid Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The 22-member Arab League and the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Co-operation have both rejected the so-called Trump peace plan, because they recognise that it has no benefit for the...

Endometriosis Workplace Support

Westminster Hall debates

I appreciate that I am late in coming to the debate, Mr Pritchard, but it is an important issue, and I thank the right hon. Member for Elmet and Rothwell (Alec Shelbrooke) for obtaining it. The...

Points of Order

Commons debates

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Will you guide me on how I can place on the record an inaccuracy in the question from the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman) to the Prime...