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Domestic Abuse: Older People

Shabana Mahmood received a response to a question they put to the government

From April 2025, the Home Office has allocated nearly £800,000 to Hourglass to provide specialist helpline and advocacy support for older victims of VAWG. We will also publish a new national...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

Let me be very clear: it is the former of the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s points. On the construction of knowing or “ought reasonably to know”, obviously the “ought...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

That conduct would not be caught. Again, I point the hon. Member to proposed new section 17B, where the combination of subsection (6)(b) and subsection (4) ensures that the work of NGOs is not...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

I do not think that the activities that the hon. Lady mentioned are caught by the Bill. We have been clear in the explanatory notes to the Bill—I refer her to paragraphs 37 and...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

The combination of what we already have on the statute book in the National Security Act and this Bill means that all aspects of that activity will be covered. It obviously depends on how the...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his contribution. The Bill seeks to create the legal framework by which designations will be made in future. The Bill will hopefully be approved quickly by...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

The right hon. Gentleman is right. It is incumbent on all parliamentarians to reflect on the platforms we appear on, and what those platforms are seeking to do. There will always be a balance to...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

I disagree with the right hon. Gentleman almost entirely. The Executive have a responsibility to protect and maintain this country’s national security, and we have to move when we see that...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

I do not agree with the hon. Lady’s construction of proposed new section 33G, but I am sure that we can pick up that point in Committee, when we do line-by-line scrutiny. The Bill is...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

Let me first associate myself with the right hon. Gentleman’s tribute to the excellent work and service of all those in our United Kingdom intelligence community, wherever they serve, and...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

Both the National Security Act 2023 and the measures we are debating today will ensure that we have the strongest suite of measures available to us to take action against those who come after...

National Security (State Threats) Bill

Commons debates

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The first responsibility of a state is to protect its citizens. The security of our nation is the basis upon which our democracy, our...

Miscellaneous

Commons debates

I will not give way, given the time.

Miscellaneous

Commons debates

I will be brief in my remarks. I regret the approach taken by the official Opposition. They know full well that this is a very tightly constructed Bill that takes forward a specific set of...

One year on: Government delivery of recommendations from Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Written Ministerial Statements

Today, marks one year since the publication of Baroness Casey’s National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and one year since this Government accepted all 12...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I very much thank my hon. Friend for her question, and she is absolutely right. Let me clarify for the House that this involves the taking of those images. We will also follow through on the...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I urge all commentators, would-be commentators and wannabes of every description to leave our criminal justice system to us. We have been going for a very long time, and we will carry on in that vein.

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Given that the right hon. Gentleman represents a party and former Government that did not take any action on dealing with hate crime, anti-Muslim hatred, or other forms of hatred, I am not going...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The right hon. Gentleman knows full well that the NPCC, which is independent of Government, is rightly reviewing the wording of the “Police Anti-Racism Commitment” to ensure that...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman is right that it can ruin lives. The Government have already held different platforms to account, and the hon. Gentleman will know about our row with Grok and the action we...