About your Member of Parliament

Your MP (Naseem Shah) represents you, and all of the people who live in Bradford West, at the UK Parliament in Westminster.

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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
• Facebook
• UK Parliament Profile

Expenses

• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Topics of interest

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

• Home Office
• Department of Health and Social Care
• Department for Education
• Ministry of Housing
• Communities and Local Government
• Foreign
• Commonwealth and Development Office
• Entry Clearances: Bangladesh
• Psychiatric Hospitals: Construction
• Independent Review of Prevent
• British Nationality
• Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups

Other offices held in the past

• Member, Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee (15 Jan 2025 to 25 Mar 2025)
• Member, Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill Committee (15 May 2024 to 22 May 2024)
• Member, Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee ( 8 Mar 2023 to 15 Mar 2023)
• Shadow Minister (Home Office) ( 4 Dec 2021 to 15 Nov 2023)
• Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (19 Sep 2021 to 4 Dec 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (10 Apr 2020 to 19 Sep 2021)
• Shadow Minister (Equalities Office) (Women and Equalities) (10 Jul 2018 to 10 Apr 2020)
• Member, Home Affairs Committee (11 Sep 2017 to 23 Jul 2018)
• 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)

• Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee (29 out of 29)
• Local Government (Pay Accountability) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) (No. 2) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
• Technical and Further Education Bill Committee (6 out of 8)
• Welfare Reform and Work Bill Committee (5 out of 11)

Recent appearances

• Sport England: Tackling Racism 9 Jul 2025

  I beg to move, That this House has considered the role of Sport England in tackling racism in sport. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McVey. I am grateful to have been granted this debate, because this is an issue I have been dealing with for over seven years now. We know that racism exists within sports across the country, but what we do not talk about enough is when it...

• Sport England: Tackling Racism 9 Jul 2025

  I thank the hon. Member for his intervention; he is absolutely right. I will come on to the role that sport plays in bringing communities together and why it is so important. Just as its institutional nature was to pass off bias and discriminatory results in tournaments, so the BJJA dismissed Mumtaz’s requests, using improper processes and technical committees made up of the very same...

• Sport England: Tackling Racism 9 Jul 2025

  I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I absolutely agree, because often sporting bodies do not reflect the diversity of those playing sport within their structures and systems. That is absolutely the case at senior management levels, and that must be addressed as well. Coming back to qualifications, in comparison, sportscotland, Sport Wales and Sport Northern Ireland all confirmed—I...

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