In Parliament - Shabana Mahmood MP

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Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Bring on the general election and I will happily answer those questions. I am not surprised that the Secretary of State does not want to acknowledge the truth. Probation officers have told me...

Topical Questions

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

This Conservative Government promised 20,000 prison places by 2025, but so far they have only delivered under 6,000. The Justice Secretary is letting violent offenders out up to two months early...

Prison Accommodation

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on providing 20,000 additional prison places by 2025.

Prison Accommodation: Construction

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison cells have been built in each year since 2010, broken down by cell type.

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released under the End of Custody Supervised Licence scheme.

Domestic Abuse and Stalking: Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) domestic abusers and (b) stalkers are ineligible for release under the end of custody supervised licence scheme.

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for which types of offences prisoners released under the end of custody supervised licence scheme were sentenced.

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons the end of custody supervised licence scheme (a) is operational and (b) has been since October 2023.

Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders

Commons debates

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Late in the hours of yesterday evening, the Government tried to slip out quietly an announcement that they will be...

Time Spent in Cells: Reoffending Rates

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

While prisoners are serving their sentence, they are not being allowed to leave their cell, but ironically the Government are also releasing some of them early. Despite a multitude of letters,...

Time Spent in Cells: Reoffending Rates

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Prisoners are spending up to 23 hours a day locked up in their cells as a direct result of overcrowding and the prisons capacity crisis caused by this Government. However, I hear congratulations...

Custodial and Community Sentences

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

That is a four-year-old announcement dressed up as something new and, given the extensive changes in the Sentencing Bill, I am afraid that it will just not cut it. Under the Conservatives, our...

Custodial and Community Sentences

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Many, many more offenders will be serving their sentences in the community as a result of the measures in the upcoming Sentencing Bill. We all know that the Government have had to rush these...

Sentencing Bill

Commons debates

We are here to debate the Second Reading of the Sentencing Bill, but it is impossible to consider the Bill properly without acknowledging what lies behind it: the prison capacity crisis. If...

Hillsborough: Bishop James Jones Report

Commons debates

It is customary to thank the Government for advance sight of the statement, but given the gravity of this matter, the fact that the report being responded to has been with the Government for many...

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Victims and Prisoners Bill

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

It is a pleasure to speak in this somewhat short Third Reading debate on this Bill. I start by paying tribute to my colleagues who did the lion’s share of the work before my team and I came...

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of prisons that have been authorised to release prisoners before the end of their sentence under the End of Custody Supervised...

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released early under the End of Custody Supervised Licence scheme in each prison since 16 October 2023.

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the end of custody supervised licence scheme was introduced.

Prisoners' Release

Ministry of Justice

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, from which prisons prisoners will be released 18 days before their automatic release date; and what estimate he has made of the number of people who...