In Parliament - Shabana Mahmood

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Independent Review of the Criminal Courts – Part 1 Report

Ministry of Justice

Written Ministerial Statements

This Government inherited a justice system in crisis with huge delays to hearings and victims left in limbo waiting to see justice done. To bear down on the backlog and deliver swifter justice...

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. and learned Member will know that for devolved matters it would of course be deeply inappropriate for me to try to influence or put pressure on the Minister of Justice in Northern...

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I have said many times at this Dispatch Box that that whole episode revealed a democratic deficit. I am reviewing the roles and powers and we will come forward with legislative changes in due course.

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Member will know that, with a judicial challenge, there will be some constraints as to what I can say publicly, and indeed even privately in a meeting. I will take advice to ensure that...

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The regulation of websites and content falls either within Home Office responsibilities for criminal law or with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and I will happily pick up...

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Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the hon. Lady for raising that important point. It is why we are reducing the threshold for the early removal scheme and looking carefully with the Home Office at the Gauke review’s...

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Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Honestly, the shadow Justice Secretary really ought to pay more attention to his day job—rather than to the job he is looking for, which the Conservative party might give him. First, had he...

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I do not have those figures directly to hand, but I am sure that if they are available, I can write to him with the details.

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

What absolute nonsense. Let me tell the House the definition of soft justice: it is what the Tory party did, building only 500 prison places in 14 years in office. That is why we are in this mess...

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

It is a little over a year since this Government were elected, and ever since I have been clearing up the mess created by the previous Government, who left our prisons days from collapse. I am...

Deporting Foreign Offenders: Prison Capacity

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I had very positive discussions with partner countries across Europe when I visited Strasbourg, where I made a speech about how the European convention on human rights is a living instrument and...

Deporting Foreign Offenders: Prison Capacity

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

As I say, we have already deported more people in the first year of this Government than was the case under the previous Government, so we are going faster on foreign national offender removals...

Deporting Foreign Offenders: Prison Capacity

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Removals under this Government have been higher over the past 12 months than under the Conservatives. We are going further by expanding the early removal scheme so that prisoners with no right to...

Prison Security

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I believe the Prisons Minister may well be attending the event that the right hon. Member mentioned. I will happily pick that up in my regular conversations with trade union officials. She is...

Prison Security

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank my hon. Friend for her question. Under the last Government, between 2019 and 2023, drone sightings around prisons increased by over 770%. As I have said, we are investing £40 million...

Prison Security

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

This year, we are investing over £40 million in physical security across 34 prisons, which includes anti-drone measures to prevent drugs and other illicit items from entering prisons....

Grooming Gangs: Criminal Justice System

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The right hon. Gentleman will know that I cannot and will not comment on individual sentences. I urge him to live up to the responsibility of being the shadow Lord Chancellor, because commenting...

Grooming Gangs: Criminal Justice System

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman raises an incredibly important point that was picked up by the Casey report, all the recommendations of which the Government have accepted, and I have no doubt that the...

Grooming Gangs: Criminal Justice System

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The sexual exploitation and rape of children by grooming gangs is one of the darkest moments in this country’s recent history. In the Crime and Policing Bill, we have made grooming a...

Crown Court Backlog

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for that question, but I would challenge him on two points. I do not think we are undermining justice in this country, when he himself recognises that...