Naseem Shah’s voting in Parliament

Naseem Shah is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.

However, Naseem Shah sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:

• Naseem Shah voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system, while most Labour MPs generally voted for. Show votes

We have lots more plain English analysis of Naseem Shah’s voting record on issues like health, welfare, taxation and more. Visit Naseem Shah’s full vote analysis page for more.

Naseem Shah has never rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.

Last updated: 8 May 2018

Recent appearances

• BAME Communities: Stop and Search — [Albert Owen in the Chair] 23 May 2018

  Thank you, Mr Owen, for again calling me to speak. I thank all the right hon. and hon. Members who have contributed to this debate: the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies); my hon. Friends the Members for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq) and for Manchester, Gorton (Afzal Khan); our shadow Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott);...

• BAME Communities: Stop and Search — [Albert Owen in the Chair] 23 May 2018

  I thank the hon. Gentleman, my neighbouring MP, for his input. How does he respond to the fact that for the majority of stop-and-searches that take place, when police officers make their recordings they are made for the purposes of addressing drugs, not knife crime or violent crime, despite what he reads?

• BAME Communities: Stop and Search — [Albert Owen in the Chair] 23 May 2018

  I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but I struggle with it. For me, the common-sense approach to this would be to say that if the police are searching more black people, they will get higher conviction rates. If they were searching the same number of white people, would that not correlate with convictions? The truth is that from the outset, black people have been stopped and searched much...

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Profile

Labour MP for Bradford West

Entered the House of Commons on 8 May 2015 — General election

• Wikipedia page

Social Media

• @nazshahbfd
• https://facebook.com/NazShahMP

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

Naseem Shah campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC

• Home Office
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Department for Education
• Department for Business
• Innovation and Skills
• Ministry of Justice
• Entry Clearances: Bangladesh
• Extended Schools
• Skills Funding Agency: Contracts
• Forced Marriage
• Entry Clearances: Canada

Currently held offices

• Member, Home Affairs Committee (since 11 Sep 2017)

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Home Affairs Committee (26 Oct 2015 to 3 May 2017)

Previous MPs in this constituency

• George Galloway
• Marsha Singh
• Max Madden
• Edward Lyons
• John Wilkinson
• Charles Haseldine
• Arthur Tiley
• Frederick Jowett
• Ernest Flower
• Alfred Illingworth

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Technical and Further Education Bill Committee (6 out of 8)
• Welfare Reform and Work Bill Committee (5 out of 11)

Numerology

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• Has spoken in 22 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs. See all Naseem Shah’s speeches
• Has received answers to 16 written questions in the last year — average amongst MPs.
• Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a low number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2015, according to constituents.
• Has voted in 78.05% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
• People have made 0 annotations on this MP’s speeches — below average amongst MPs.
• This MP’s speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 17–18 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 62 people are tracking this MP — email me updates on Naseem Shah’s activity
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 44 times in debates — well below average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)