Speeches by Mohamed.

“Nothing was removed—okay. Do you think you had sufficient time to carry out meaningful checks?”

“As the Member for Sheffield Central, I approach this Second Reading debate with pride that we have finally got here, but with the deepest frustration and sadness at the time that that has taken. Many of my constituents, like those of my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (Gill Furniss), wi…”

“Given that he eventually came into the position in February, were you satisfied at that point that the information that was already in the public domain would not cause any potential reputational embarrassment?”

“If we are showing a decline and, as you say, there are potentially 35 further countries in which we will no longer have an office, is the realistic trajectory that we might go down in those indices?”

“One of the indices shows that, for the first time, the UK has fallen from second to third, overtaken by China. How impactful is that? Are there any means for us to climb back up the ladder?”

“I want to take you back to the answer you gave about soft power. Other European countries are funded a lot more than the UK. How do you see soft power being impacted, given the downward trajectory of the funding? Is it likely to impact us further?”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her announcement today, particularly the planned increase in tuition fees and maintenance loans, which will be warmly welcomed by students and the two world-class universities on my patch, the University of Sheffield and Hallam University. Will the Secretary of State join me in affirm…”

“I will speak on new clause 35, which sets out the conditions under which community treatment orders can be extended beyond 12 months. Like many across my constituency of Sheffield Central, I know personally how overstretched our mental health services are. My brother lives with complex mental health needs and our famil…”

“The longer that Israel is allowed to act like a rogue state, bombing sovereign countries with impunity and expanding its war in the middle east, the weaker our words look—Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Syria, Tunisian soil and now Qatar. Why are we meeting Israel’s President Herzog today, when his own words and those of N…”

“This weekend alone, almost 900 people—several of whom were from my constituency—were arrested. The Terrorism Act was not brought in to arrest vicars, retired grandmothers and NHS consultants for holding a placard, yet the police are now in the position where that is exactly what they are doing weekend after weekend. Wi…”

“The point that I am going to make is about existing committee structures retaining their models, rather than about new committees. The Local Government Association has also called for councils to be able to retain their structures until local communities choose otherwise, and for my constituents, similarly, this is a m…”

“Yara is a 24-year-old student from Gaza City. Her ambition is to study international law and global justice, and earlier this year she won a scholarship at the University of Sheffield to do just that. Yara is one of more than 80 scholarship students trapped in Gaza today, displaced again and again, with all her belongi…”

“6. What progress his Department has made on the evacuation of UK scholarship students from Gaza.”

“I congratulate the Deputy Prime Minister on bringing forward this Bill, which embeds our ambition and champions the promise of devolution. It will mark the biggest transfer of power from Whitehall to our regions in a generation. It means that the protection of our public spaces will result in the improvement of our inf…”

“I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s statement on Palestinian statehood and the additional aid announced for Gaza, as well as the recent work to evacuate students and children in need of medical treatment. However, the world’s foremost group of genocide scholars has said that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet th…”

“Before I came into politics I spent about 20 years working in and with communities, a significant part of which was in early years, so this area is of real importance to me. Through the Sure Start programme, I helped set up a children’s centre and saw firsthand how early years provision lifts up families, supports pare…”

“Not a single person in my Sudanese diaspora community in Sheffield has not been affected by the horrific violence in Sudan, but the most harrowing part for them is not the regular communication jams blocking parent from child and brother from sister, or the multiple displacements of millions of the most vulnerable peop…”

“Thank you, Chair. I will start with Yemen. What is your assessment of the UK’s suitability to be the penholder for Yemen?”

“The words of the former UK ambassador to the UN were very different from yours. He said that the pen was actually “paralysed” in the UK’s hands and that very little has taken place. As a result of this, Oman is now working very closely with Saudi Arabia to develop a road map for peace, and the UK is not present there. …”

“What about things like arms embargoes and potential sanctions—have they been explored?”