Shabana Mahmood

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 convers...

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...

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 ...

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 com...

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 thi...

The right hon. Gentleman raises a really important point, and I am grateful to him for doing so. Focusing on the children of prisoners was a manifesto...

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 th...

The hon. Gentleman raises an incredibly important point that was picked up by the Casey report, all the recommendations of which the Government have a...

I had very positive discussions with partner countries across Europe when I visited Strasbourg, where I made a speech about how the European conventio...

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 f...

We do not have a blasphemy law, and we are not going to have a blasphemy law in this country. As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, I believe that that...

As I think the hon. Lady will be aware, that is primarily a policy area for our colleagues in the Northern Ireland Office, but I will make sure that w...

I think the country will hold to account those responsible for the absolute mess that this Government inherited. Nowhere in the right hon. Gentleman’s...

We are investing in probation. Funding will increase by £700 million by the final year of the spending review. That is a 45% increase in annual budget...

Of course, we work closely with colleagues in the Home Office and the Treasury. The Government will shortly publish the outcome of the spending review...

I am very sorry to hear of the experiences of the hon. Lady’s constituent; it is clearly a horrifying case, and my sympathies are with her. Given that...

If the shadow Minister ever did any homework, he would know that it is always the Attorney General who has to agree and sign off on unduly lenient sen...

The shadow Minister should know that the Law Commission is considering the whole area of unduly lenient sentencing. It is important that we let it do ...

No; what this Government are doing is cleaning up the almighty mess left to us by the previous Government, of which the right hon. Gentleman was a mem...

I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I and colleagues in the Justice Department are working closely with our colleagues in the Home Department to make...