House of Commons

My Record of Contributions

Toeic: Overseas Students

Commons debates

I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) for securing this urgent question and making a powerful case. His work and commitment on this issue has been tremendous. The...

Nationality

Exiting the European Union (Transport)

Afzal Khan made a speech in the House of Commons

I agree with my hon. Friend. Denying someone their right to citizenship of the only country they have ever known is a heinous overreaction to a policy caution, especially for children as young as...

Nationality

Exiting the European Union (Transport)

Afzal Khan made a speech in the House of Commons

The good character requirement has wrongly blocked children from registering for their right to British citizenship. We support the statutory instrument because it corrects a discriminatory and...

Social Care Services: Accessibility

Health and Social Care

Afzal Khan made a speech in the House of Commons

Given that the Government have promised a spending increase for the NHS in the regions, is the Minister aware that at the current funding levels, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care...

Social Care Services: Accessibility

Health and Social Care

Afzal Khan made a speech in the House of Commons

What recent estimate he has made of the number of people unable to access social care services.

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2019 to Question 276276, whether the reasons for a decision sent to a claimant will include HMRC and DWP...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2019 to Question 276277 on Immigration: Windrush Generation, what the criteria of proportionality will be...

Counter-terrorism

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the advertisement for the role of independent reviewer of prevent; and where it will be published.

Counter-terrorism

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2019 to Question HL16344, whether he plans to include the appointment of the Independent Reviewer of...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether compensation awarded from the Windrush compensation scheme is taken into account in an assessment for an application for (a)...

Police Surveillance of Journalists

Commons debates

Press freedom is an integral part of democracy. We do not have too much freedom of the press in this country; we have too little. Can it be right that the press is threatened for publishing...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Windrush compensation scheme, what the average offer has been to an applicant and what criteria his Department uses to...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people applying to the Windrush compensation scheme will be subject to the immigration exemption to the Data Protection Act 2018.

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether people applying to the Windrush compensation scheme who request a Tier 1 or Tier 2 review will have access to the evidence or data...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will publish data on the time taken between someone submitting a claim to the Windrush compensation scheme and a decision being...

Immigration: Windrush Generation

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has a target for the time taken to make a decision on a claim submitted to the Windrush compensation scheme.

Immigration Policies

Oral Answers to Questions - Home Department

Afzal Khan made a speech in the House of Commons

The Windrush crisis did not fall from the sky but was a direct result of the hostile environment, which the High Court has found directly causes discrimination. The Windrush compensation scheme...

Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill

Public Bill Committees

I beg to move, That the Committee do now adjourn. It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Owen. I thank Committee members for being here once again. They may be interested to...

Immigration Detention: Trafficking and Modern Slavery - [Sir Gary Streeter in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Gary. I, too, thank my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips) for securing the debate and for the hard work she...

Immigration: EU Nationals

Department for Exiting the European Union

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to oral Answer of 27 June 2019 on the EU Settlement Scheme, if he will place a copy in the Library of his...