About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Shabana Mahmood) represents you, and all of the people who live in Birmingham Ladywood, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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Profile

Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood

Entered the House of Commons on 6 May 2010 — General election

Also represented Birmingham, Ladywood

• Personal website
• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @ShabanaMahmood
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Shabana Mahmood campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Home Department
• Home Office
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Treasury
• Higher Education
• Students: Loans
• Revenue and Customs
• Buildings: Insulation
• Higher Education: Admissions

Currently held offices

• The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (since 5 Jul 2024)

Other offices held in the past

• Shadow Secretary of State for Justice ( 4 Sep 2023 to 30 May 2024)
• National campaign co-ordinator ( 9 May 2021 to 4 Sep 2023)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 20 Apr 2021)
• Member, Public Accounts Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 6 Nov 2019)
• Member, International Trade Committee (31 Oct 2016 to 3 May 2017)
• Member, Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee) (26 Nov 2015 to 11 Feb 2016)
• Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury ( 8 May 2015 to 14 Sep 2015)
• Shadow Minister (Treasury) ( 7 Oct 2013 to 8 May 2015)
• Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) ( 7 Oct 2011 to 7 Oct 2013)
• Shadow Minister (Home Affairs) ( 8 Oct 2010 to 7 Oct 2011)
• Member, Work and Pensions Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 2 Nov 2010)

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Bill Committee (0 out of 3)
• High-Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Riot Compensation Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill Committee (0 out of 2)
• High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill Committee (3 out of 6)
• High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
• Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (3 out of 3)
• Finance Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
• National Insurance Contributions Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
• Finance (No. 2) Bill Committee (7 out of 9)
• Identity Documents Bill Committee (5 out of 5)
• Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill Committee (9 out of 10)

Recent appearances

• Written Ministerial Statements — Ministry of Justice: Judicial Conduct Investigations Office Annual Report 2023–2024 8 May 2025

  With the concurrence of the Lady Chief Justice, I will today publish the seventeenth annual report of the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO). The JCIO supports the Lady Chief Justice and the Lord Chancellor in our joint statutory responsibility for judicial discipline. The judiciary comprises approximately 20,000 individuals serving across a range of jurisdictions. Over the past...

• Written Ministerial Statements — Ministry of Justice: Use of PAVA in public sector Young Offender Institutions in England 24 Apr 2025

  This Government inherited a crisis in our criminal justice system. This extends to the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate which has seen increased levels of violence and instability in the past decade particularly in the public sector Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), HMP & YOI Feltham A, HMYOI Werrington and HMYOI Wetherby. Our hardworking staff manage young people who are in...

• Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill 22 Apr 2025

  I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. When I spoke in this House on 1 April, I set out the Government’s intention to introduce emergency legislation, because I believe that our justice system must be above all else fair, and that, standing before a judge, we are all equal, no matter the colour of our skin or the question of our faith. Given the existential nature of this...

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