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Tahir Ali MP in Parliament

Climate Change Convention: Turkey

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Tahir Ali received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment her Department has made of Türkiye's capacity and ambition as COP31 host, and what support is the UK offering...

Turkey: Foreign Relations

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Tahir Ali received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, following the April 2026 signing of the UK-Türkiye Strategic Partnership Framework and Defence and Security...

Causing Death by Dangerous or Careless Driving: Sentencing - [Emma Lewell in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I agree with the hon. Lady that we welcome the target of 65% by 2035, but by 2035 we could have had at least two general elections if not more. This is not fair on the families who have lost...

Causing Death by Dangerous or Careless Driving: Sentencing - [Emma Lewell in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I have previously spoken quite vociferously on the issue. Tougher sentences have to happen, with the revocation of licences for a very long period. Two lives were lost in my constituency: two...

Overseas Students: Gaza

Department for Education

Tahir Ali received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the policy rationale is for granting home fee status to students arriving under the Ukraine visa schemes, and whether she has considered...

Overseas Students: Gaza

Department for Education

Tahir Ali received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of international fee status on the ability of students from Gaza to take up places at UK universities.

Visas: Gaza

Tahir Ali received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Gazan students (a) applied for and (b) were granted UK Student visas in each of the last three years; and how many of those...

Visas: Gaza

Tahir Ali received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help students from Gaza who hold UK university offers to leave Gaza and reach the UK, and whether those steps...

Royal Mail: Performance - [Emma Lewell in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Would the hon. Lady agree that Ofcom needs further powers to bring about the change that is necessary, because it is limited in what it can do? For the record, Ms Lewell, I worked at Royal Mail...

Royal Mail: Performance - [Emma Lewell in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Before joining Parliament in 2019, I had 22 years of service with Royal Mail as an engineer, and I can tell the hon. Lady that working conditions were in decline then. We now hear that more than...

Youth Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Support

Westminster Hall debates

The Children’s Commissioner has reported that more than 1 million children have active referrals to mental health services, so does my hon. Friend agree that help and support need to be...

Israel and Palestine

Commons debates

On the issue of disarmament, should we not also be calling for Israel’s disarmament, given the atrocities that have been committed? Previous Governments have intervened in the middle east...

Israel and Palestine

Commons debates

If speaking up against war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide means being banned from entering that country, my hon. Friend should wear it as a badge of honour. She should be proud of that....

Israel and Palestine

Commons debates

The UK Government need to work with all their partners, but the reality is that unless America takes action, Israel is not going to back off from the atrocities it is carrying out. We need to...

Online Safety

Commons debates

Children are being exposed daily to horrific, violent content online. Ofcom’s own research shows that nearly a quarter of 11 to 17-year-olds have seen violent content in just four weeks,...

Direction of Government

Commons debates

I will follow your advice, Madam Deputy Speaker. Neighbourhood police numbers are down, and youth services have been cut to the bone. Is it any surprise that youth crime is rising? Does the Prime...

Human Rights in Kashmir

Westminster Hall debates

I absolutely agree. No one’s views, no matter how harsh or difficult they may sound, should be used as a means of torture or a means of distracting them from the agenda by making their...

Human Rights in Kashmir

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris, and I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford East (Imran Hussain) for securing this important debate. I speak today not only...

UK Politics: Pro-Israel Influence - [Carolyn Harris in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Although I agree with my hon. Friend’s sentiments, this debate is about lobby groups, and especially the Israeli Government. Pro-Israeli lobby groups have paid hundreds of thousands in...

UK Politics: Pro-Israel Influence - [Carolyn Harris in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. This debate touches on a principle fundamental to our democracy: British democracy is by the British people, for the British people...