Shabana Mahmood

Labour — Birmingham Ladywood

Government roles held

Written answers given

• As a member of the Home Affairs Committee, I proposed an amendment to our recent report on earned settlement that includ
• I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. It took a year for the Home Secretary to build her reput
• It is extraordinary that the Opposition see migration issues as some kind of political football. We are talking about pe
• It is a year since the Home Secretary’s initial statement on her immigration reforms, and we still disagree with the Gov
• I welcome this statement and its greatly imaginative measures. I particularly welcome the fact that care workers will ha
• Because of the nature of my constituency, I work with a large number of people who come here—often on the boats—and thei
• The Home Secretary is right to say that government is about a social contract, and I can see where she is coming from. S
• I welcome the Home Secretary’s focus on fairness. People know that this country has a set of rules, and we all should ad
• The Home Secretary will know that the Committee conducted a piece of deliberative democracy work, in which we worked wit
• A large number of people from Hong Kong have chosen to make Stockport and Greater Manchester their home, and they make a
• A Home Secretary clearing up the mess of her immediate predecessor—who would have thought it? When I brought through cha
• Those who come to our country and genuinely work in our care sector, looking after our elderly and vulnerable, do our co
• One of the criteria to gain long-term settlement rights that the Home Secretary set out was no debt being owed to the st
• Victims of domestic abuse who have come over as dependants can currently apply for settlement immediately. Will that cha
• Like the Home Secretary, I come from an immigrant family that came here legally, but I fail to understand why she thinks
• I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement. She will be aware of my ongoing concerns with regard to Turkish business
• I have constituents who are waiting on the five-year route to ILR, who have brought their spouses and children with them
• I thank the Home Secretary for the changes she has announced today, but questions remain about the impact of these chang
• What a missed opportunity to strengthen the rules, strengthen the illegal immigration policy and strengthen our borders.
• I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. As she knows, I have written to her about this matter, and I have met migr
• I was hoping when I turned up today that I would hear the Home Secretary say that she was abandoning all the proposals a
• I would like to ask a question on behalf of a constituent of mine who has been in touch today. He came across the world
• I welcome the retention of the five-year pathway for indefinite leave to remain. I have met Nigerian and Zimbabwean soci
• Restricting access to public funds to those with settlement rights will most likely require primary legislation. When wi
• It is heartening to hear the Home Secretary dispel the lump of labour fallacy that people who come to this country simpl
• By allowing those with more money to jump the queue and receive earned settlement status faster, these changes amount to
• I welcome the fair solution for existing migrant care workers, because they did nothing but respond to a need for their
• It is weeks since I wrote to the immigration Minister, but I have not had a response—out of generosity of spirit, I will
• This country owes those in the Gurkha regiment a debt of thanks for their continued service. Will the Secretary of State
• Does the Home Secretary believe that it is fair to change the rules retrospectively for people who are not earning in ex
• I commend my right hon. Friend for consulting so widely in developing the earned settlement proposals and for listening
• The list of public sector jobs eligible to apply for the five-year settlement route does not appear to include prison of
• I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. The previous Conservative Government’s approach to net migration can at be
• The Home Secretary has said that anyone exploiting or abusing the system must be penalised, and I suspect the whole Hous
• I supported the Home Secretary’s original proposals and the tougher measures she has been taking since she came into pos
• Will migrants who come to this country and set up legitimate small businesses that employ people who pay taxes be advant
• There was a certain irony in the shadow Home Secretary lecturing the House on who should be defined as highly skilled. H
• I respect the Home Secretary, but these are not the reforms that she wanted. When she said that the Boris wave was desta
• The Home Secretary is right to set out fairness as the guiding principle for her reforms. Does she accept that contribut
• The Home Secretary did not address the issue of the dependants of armed forces personnel. In June, the majority of Gover
• Will the Home Secretary set out what internal changes she will make in the Home Office? One complaint I often get from p
• Where is the fairness in prioritising very wealthy people and very high earners over much lower-paid care workers who ar
• The Home Secretary will be well aware that the need for migrant workers varies throughout the country. What assessment h
• The Home Secretary is absolutely right to talk about the British people’s sense of fairness; I heard about exactly that
• Although I welcome the earned progression model, it is disappointing that the Home Secretary has watered down her origin
• I just want to say something that I think everybody in this House recognises, which is that the Home Secretary is probab
• I am aware that businesses not offering high-quality employment, such as mini-marts, barber shops, vape shops and nail b
• I will read the detail in the consultation, but I am concerned about retrospective changes because our word should be ou
• In her statement, the Home Secretary used the word “fair”, or different iterations of it, 20 times. She said that her ow
• I welcome the change for care workers, but may I ask more about those whose five years have not worked out, for one reas

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