Campaigns and Policy - Afzal Khan

Covid-19 Vaccination Q&A

The NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Programme is the biggest immunisation effort in the health service’s history. If we are to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, it is vital that everyone has the chance to get vaccinated. I know there are many people, particularly among our Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities,…

National Apprenticeship Week 2021

This week marks National Apprenticeship Week and presents an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the achievements of apprentices and their employers in Manchester, and across the country. We know apprenticeships provide people with the chance to learn a trade and earn a wage while they progress. Investing in training opportunities…

My reflections on It’s A Sin and LGBT+ History Month

Like millions of people across the UK, I was recently glued to my TV watching Russell T. Davies’ poignant masterpiece It’s A Sin. The show documents the lives of three young gay men during the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the UK. It powerfully and painfully demonstrates just…

New Report: Keep the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift

A new evidence-based report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty has today called on the Government to make the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit permanent. The report also calls on the uplift to be extended to all legacy or related benefits and for the benefit cap to…

Afzal’s Speech on Protecting Workers’ Rights

On Monday 25 January, Parliament debated a motion calling on the Government to abandon its rumoured plans to rip up hard-won workers’ rights now we have left the EU. It also called on the Government to outlaw the practice of fire and rehire, which is being used by companies across…

Goodbye President Trump, Hello President Biden

Today marks inauguration day in America when we can say a final farewell to President Donald J Trump and his divisive and dangerous politics. For many in America and around the world, this moment could not have come soon enough. Donald Trump’s legacy will be one of poison and division.…

Opposition Day Debate: Free School Meals and Remote Education

In the North West, a quarter of a million children qualify for free school meals. Nearly six-and-a-half-thousand of these children live in my constituency. To put this in perspective there are more children claiming Free School Meals in Manchester Gorton, than in the constituencies of the Prime Minister, Chancellor, and…

Afzal Demands Action on the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Industry

Buy Now Pay Later companies like Klarna, Clearpay, Laybuy and Afterpay have boomed during lockdown, with as many as one in four shoppers using their services in the run-up to Christmas and 35% of adults relying more heavily on this type of credit since the pandemic struck last year. More…

Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Vaccinate Britain

The situation we now find ourselves in is incredibly serious. Coronavirus is spreading at an alarming rate across the country, tens of thousands of people are in hospital, and many more have tragically lost loved ones. This third lockdown will be immensely difficult for families and businesses in Manchester Gorton…

New Tier System

Thank you to constituents who have written to me about the recent changes to the coronavirus guidance. On 2nd December, the second national lockdown ended and our area was put back into tier 3 restrictions: very high alert. Details of what is and is not allowed under tier 3 restrictions…

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