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HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and Girls: FundingMy Lords, minority ethnic women face higher rates of domestic homicide and suicide linked to abuse, yet successive Governments continue to laud how much they are funding to tackle…28 Apr 2025HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and Girls: FundingTo ask His Majesty’s Government whether funding they provide to tackle violence against women and girls is available through open application processes; and what assessment they…28 Apr 2025HANSARDSpring StatementMy Lords, the welfare cuts will push women, children, the disabled and ethnic minorities further into poverty and lower their living standards. Surely, this is discriminatory and…27 Mar 2025HANSARDTell MAMA: FundingMy Lords, first of all, I thank the Minister for attending the launch of Muslim Heritage Month earlier this week. I also commend the Government on starting the work on the…13 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support everything the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, has said. I declare my interests as set out in the register. I will briefly speak on Amendment 72 about sexually…28 Jan 2025HANSARDGaza: Healthcare System SupportMy Lords, I welcome the fragile agreed ceasefire, although it was too late for those hostages who could have been saved and the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed and…16 Jan 2025HANSARDGaza: Humanitarian SituationMy Lords, eight members of the Israeli parliament’s foreign affairs and defence committee recently wrote to the Defence Minister demanding that he order Israeli forces in Gaza to…06 Jan 2025HANSARDHome SchoolingMy Lords, there is a disproportionately high number of minority-ethnic children in home elective education. If we look at the numbers where ethnicity is known, they amount to…19 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, particularly as CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK, which operates a national helpline. I also apologise for not being…18 Dec 2024HANSARDNon-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, for proposing this Bill and her powerful introduction. Taking and creating…13 Dec 2024HANSARDDomestic Abuse: Victims and SurvivorsMy Lords, I made three very important points on spiritual abuse, transnational abandonment and the higher domestic homicide rates among ethnic-minority women, which have not been…12 Dec 2024HANSARDDomestic Abuse: Victims and SurvivorsI, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Chisholm, for securing this debate. I declare my interest as CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK. I shall focus on four points: funding,…12 Dec 2024HANSARD“Get Britain Working” White PaperMy Lords, I refer to my interests as set out in the register. Black and Asian women, particularly Bangladeshi and Pakistani women, have high unemployment rates and find it very…27 Nov 2024HANSARDHome School Education Registration and Support Bill [HL]My Lords, I commend the noble Lord, Lord Storey, for proposing this Bill. I support mandatory home education registration—as well as the registration of those not in education, as…15 Nov 2024HANSARDEducation: Early Years Attainment GapMy Lords, the largest number of nursery closures in recent years has been in the poorest parts of the country, particularly in areas with large minority-ethnic populations. Will…05 Nov 2024HANSARDCommunity and Voluntary SectorI congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Porter, on her maiden speech and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Drefelin, for securing this debate and for her excellent…31 Oct 2024HANSARDAnti-Muslim Prejudice and Hate CrimeMy Lords, I am publishing a report today called A nti-Muslim H ate: Concerns a nd Experiences . I have sent a draft of it to the Minister and will send a final copy today. Will…09 Sept 2024HANSARDAnti-Muslim Prejudice and Hate CrimeIn begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I draw attention to my interests set out in the register.09 Sept 2024HANSARDAnti-Muslim Prejudice and Hate CrimeTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the drivers of hate crime against Muslims in Britain, and what steps they are taking to challenge anti-Muslim…09 Sept 2024HANSARDBlack, Asian and Minority-Ethnic Women: Maternal Mortality RatesTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to reduce the maternal mortality rates of Black, Asian and minority ethnic women, and to reduce the mortality rates of their…29 Jul 2024