In Parliament - Shabana Mahmood

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Consultation on the future of the Undercover Policing Inquiry

Written Ministerial Statements

Today I am launching a consultation on the future of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI). This Government is committed to delivering justice and to ensuring that public inquiries are able to...

Report by the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office

Written Ministerial Statements

This statement updates the House on the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s investigation into how MI5 came to provide false evidence to the Courts on whether or not it had confirmed the...

Publication of the Border Security Commander’s Annual Report 2025-26

Written Ministerial Statements

Today I can announce that the first Border Security Commander’s Annual Report, for the period 2025 to 2026, is being laid before Parliament. In our manifesto, this Government promised to...

Police workforce

Written Ministerial Statements

The twelfth report of the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) is being laid before Parliament and published today. The Body considered the pay and allowances for police officers in the...

NCA workforce pay and allowances

Written Ministerial Statements

The twelfth report of the National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body (NCARRB) is being laid before Parliament and published today. The NCARRB report advises the Government on the pay and...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I will not, because Madam Deputy Speaker wishes me to wind up quickly. In clause 37, we close another significant loophole. As it stands, those whose claims turn out to be unfounded can continue...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I have been far too generous, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will plough on, but my hon. Friend is absolutely right: the way to make sure that the interpretation of international human rights law is in...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

Actually, I think we need to focus our efforts in a number of areas. We need to ensure that we are improving the quality and speed of initial decisions, and we have been doing that. However, as...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

To reassure my hon. Friend, before a case proceeds to appeal, we already have an internal process whereby we check whether we should still defend the claim at appeal stage. If the facts have...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I think my hon. Friend means mandatory reconsideration in the context of a case when an appeal is made.

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford East (Imran Hussain), if he still wants to come in. [Interruption.] No? I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I have given way to my hon. Friend before; I will make progress and come back to him. In the new system, a single, faster appeal route will be established, as addressed in clauses 11 and 12....

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

All such appointments will be subject to the usual public appointments principles, which will apply here as they do elsewhere. I am happy to discuss with Members, as the Bill passes through the...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I will give way to my hon. Friend who has not asked a question yet.

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

As the right hon. Lady will see, the authority will be fully independent, and the impartiality of this new authority is vital. As clause 1 makes clear, its decisions will be entirely independent...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I will make more progress and I will come back to the right hon. Lady. As anyone who knows these tribunals can attest, most immigration and asylum appeals turn on the facts. That requires...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

As my hon. and learned Friend will know, 50% of a 150,000 backlog is still 75,000 cases. He will also know that the multiple appeals made to delay and frustrate legitimate removal from the...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I will in a moment. I will make a little more progress—I think I have been rather generous. As many here will know, appeals are currently heard by judges in the first-tier tribunal...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

Well, I disagree with my hon. Friend, the Bar Council and other groups on this matter. In fact, I will shortly set out the many tribunals in which people make decisions of great import every...

Immigration and Asylum Bill

Commons debates

I say to the right hon. Lady, for whom I have the greatest respect, that it is not as if I am about to forget my own background, so I do not really need other people to remind me of my own...