Zarah Sultana’s work in Parliament - West Midlands Labour

Zarah Sultana MP in Parliament

Cass Review

Commons debates

Although I welcome the call from Dr Cass for all young people, including young trans people, to be “treated with compassion and respect”, I share concerns about important elements of...

Iran-Israel Update

Commons debates

I have notified the office of the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Alicia Kearns), who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, that I would reference her in my question. It was recently...

Colombia: Peace Negotiations

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department plans to take at the UN Security Council as the penholder for Colombia’s 2016 peace...

Israel and Gaza

Commons debates

As we debate this topic, children are starving to death in Gaza. Babies are so malnourished that UNICEF says that they do not have the energy to cry. Famine is not just imminent; it is happening,...

Income Tax (Charge)

Commons debates

I was a teenager when the Conservative party came to power. As that Government took office, they told us that they had to cut funding for public services, blaming “benefit cheats” and...

Arms Trade: Israel

Department for Business and Trade

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the press release entitled Arms exports to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts, published by the Office of the UN High...

Middle East: International Law

Ministry of Defence

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2024 to Question 9950 on Yemen: Military Intervention and to the Answer of 20 February 2024 to Question 13836 on...

Offenders: Domestic Abuse

Ministry of Justice

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) people whose alleged offending results from experience of domestic abuse have access to an effective defence...

Israel and Gaza

Commons debates

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In response to a question from the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (Gavin Newlands), the Minister said that the arms export Committee...

Israel and Gaza

Commons debates

This weekend it was reported that the Government are finally starting to withdraw support for the Israeli military, suspending assistance for Israeli F-35 fighter jets and helicopters at RAF...

Legal Migration

Home Department

Zarah Sultana made a speech in the House of Commons

To cut a long story short, a constituent’s skilled work visa application was mistakenly withdrawn by the Home Office. The error has resulted in him no longer having the right to work in the...

Ceasefire in Gaza

Commons debates

Madam Deputy Speaker, “what I witnessed…in Gaza was not war—it was annihilation.” Those are the words of an American doctor, Irfan Galaria, who recently returned from Gaza...

Civil Servants: Cost of Living Payments

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make the cost-of-living payment made to civil servants in the year to 31 March 2023 available to all civil servants (a) employed and (b) who...

Gaza: Israel

Ministry of Defence

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2024 to Question 10673 on Gaza: Israel, whether his Department has a comparable tracker logging alleged Israeli...

Hamas: UNRWA

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the press notice entitled Allegations about UNRWA staff and 7 October attacks: FCDO statement,...

Balochistan: Human Rights

Westminster Hall debates

I would like to echo my right hon. Friend’s admiration for the courage of the women leading the long march to Islamabad from across Balochistan, raising awareness of human rights abuses in...

Gaza: Israel

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to paragraph 30 of the summary grounds of the Secretary of State in the case of The King (on the...

Gaza: Israel

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Zarah Sultana received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2024 to Question 10673 on Gaza: Israel, whether his Department has logged alleged...

Knife and Sword Ban

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Member for his question. As I mentioned in my speech, we in this Chamber are often quick to resort to law and order and custodial sentences, but that is not the whole response,...

Knife and Sword Ban

Commons debates

Madam Deputy Speaker: “I just want it to stop. I just don’t want it to be happening here…where there are little kids playing in the park.” That is how one Coventry teen...