At a glanceShabana Mahmood is a Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, and has represented the seat for 16 years, 2 months. They currently serve as Home Secretary. They have cast 149 votes in Commons divisions (26% attendance), tabled 621 written questions and registered 4 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Shabana Mahmood did not vote in 426. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
She currently holds the Government post of Home Secretary.
Current roles
- Home Secretary Government post · Home Office since 5 Sep 2025
- Birmingham Ladywood Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 6 May 2010
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 147 of 147 shared votes
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Daniel Francis
Labour
100.0% · 147 of 147 shared votes
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Peter Lamb
Labour
100.0% · 143 of 143 shared votes
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Johanna Baxter
Labour
100.0% · 142 of 142 shared votes
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Gurinder Singh Josan
Labour
100.0% · 142 of 142 shared votes
Votes least like
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 80 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
0.0% · 0 of 78 shared votes
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George Freeman
Conservative
1.2% · 1 of 83 shared votes
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Chris Philp
Conservative
1.9% · 2 of 108 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
2.2% · 2 of 91 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP4
- Francesca Perrin - £50,000.00 (registered 3 Oct 2025)
- Global Foods (Birmingham) Limited - £2,500.00 (registered 13 Aug 2025)
- Andeep Mangal - £2,500.00 (registered 22 Jul 2025)
- Manjit Jhooty - £2,500.00 (registered 15 Jul 2025)
Written questions
Domestic Abuse and Stalking: Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) domestic abusers and (b) stalkers are ineligible for release under the end of custody supervised licence scheme.
Answer · 18 Mar 2024
Nobody convicted of serious violence will be released early and anyone convicted of any sexual or terror offence is automatically excluded. Unlike Labour’s End of Custody Licence scheme, which ran from 2007 to 2010, all offenders who may be eligible for r...
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for which types of offences prisoners released under the end of custody supervised licence scheme were sentenced.
Answer · 18 Mar 2024
End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) allows certain lower-level offenders to be released before their automatic release date. Unlike Labour’s scheme, which ran from 2007 to 2010, all offenders will be released onto strict licence conditions.Nobody con...
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons the end of custody supervised licence scheme (a) is operational and (b) has been since October 2023.
Answer · 18 Mar 2024
Unlike Labour’s End of Custody License scheme which ran from 2007 to 2010, End of Custody Supervised Licence only operates in specific prisons where it is absolutely necessary. The number of prisons where it is in operation is reviewed constantly and ther...
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released under the End of Custody Supervised Licence scheme.
Answer · 18 Mar 2024
End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL) began in October 2023, and an analysis of its use will be based on one year’s worth of data and published on an annual basis in line with other statistics, such as deaths of offenders in the community.
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison cells have been built in each year since 2010, broken down by cell type.
Answer · 25 Mar 2024
As some cells hold more than one person, the operational capacity of the prison estate is best understood by the number of places rather than number of cells, and this is how data is recorded by HMPPS.The below table provides a summary of the number of pr...
Prison Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made on providing 20,000 additional prison places by 2025.
Answer · 25 Mar 2024
We are delivering 20,000 additional, modern prison places, the largest prison build programme since the Victorian era, ensuring the right conditions are in place to rehabilitate prisoners, helping to cut crime and protect the public. So far, c.5,900 addi...
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the end of custody supervised licence scheme was introduced.
Answer · 14 Nov 2023
End of Custody Supervised Licence was first implemented on 17 October 2023.
Prisoners' Release
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released early under the End of Custody Supervised Licence scheme in each prison since 16 October 2023.
Answer · 14 Nov 2023
As the Lord Chancellor set out in his statement of 16 October, End of Custody Supervised Licence (ECSL), first implemented on 17 October 2023, uses s248 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to remove onto licence some prisoners up to 18 days in advance of the...
Early day motions
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Speeches in the chamber
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will not, because Madam Deputy Speaker wishes me to wind up quickly. In clause 37, we close another significant loophole. As it stands, those whose claims turn out to be unfounded can continue to receive taxpayer-funded support for a …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I have been far too generous, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will plough on, but my hon. Friend is absolutely right: the way to make sure that the interpretation of international human rights law is in line with what the general public would expe…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Actually, I think we need to focus our efforts in a number of areas. We need to ensure that we are improving the quality and speed of initial decisions, and we have been doing that. However, as my hon. Friend will know and as I have just s…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
To reassure my hon. Friend, before a case proceeds to appeal, we already have an internal process whereby we check whether we should still defend the claim at appeal stage. If the facts have changed or if there are issues with the original…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I think my hon. Friend means mandatory reconsideration in the context of a case when an appeal is made.
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford East (Imran Hussain), if he still wants to come in. [Interruption.] No? I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (Chris Murray) then.
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I have given way to my hon. Friend before; I will make progress and come back to him. In the new system, a single, faster appeal route will be established, as addressed in clauses 11 and 12. Today, too many claimants make multiple claim…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
All such appointments will be subject to the usual public appointments principles, which will apply here as they do elsewhere. I am happy to discuss with Members, as the Bill passes through the House, whether there are any additional safeg…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will give way to my hon. Friend who has not asked a question yet.
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
As the right hon. Lady will see, the authority will be fully independent, and the impartiality of this new authority is vital. As clause 1 makes clear, its decisions will be entirely independent of Government, with every Minister of the Cr…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will make more progress and I will come back to the right hon. Lady. As anyone who knows these tribunals can attest, most immigration and asylum appeals turn on the facts. That requires careful, impartial and well-trained decision mak…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
As my hon. and learned Friend will know, 50% of a 150,000 backlog is still 75,000 cases. He will also know that the multiple appeals made to delay and frustrate legitimate removal from the country are a real problem in the system. That is …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will in a moment. I will make a little more progress—I think I have been rather generous. As many here will know, appeals are currently heard by judges in the first-tier tribunal immigration and asylum chamber. This model, which relie…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
Well, I disagree with my hon. Friend, the Bar Council and other groups on this matter. In fact, I will shortly set out the many tribunals in which people make decisions of great import every single day without being required to be legally …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I say to the right hon. Lady, for whom I have the greatest respect, that it is not as if I am about to forget my own background, so I do not really need other people to remind me of my own history or background in my own country. We are ta…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I will give way to the right hon. Lady, but I will make progress after that.
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
As the right hon. Gentleman well knows, the Bill is specifically about the changes we are making to our asylum system, to human rights laws, and to the approach that the Government want to take to asylum appeals. This is not a Bill about i…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
I have already answered the point about proposals around indefinite leave to remain; I remind the right hon. and learned Lady, and the House, that it has been settled Government policy to increase the qualifying period from five years to 1…
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
We have set out our proposals to open up a student refugee scheme and a community sponsorship scheme that will go live later in autumn this year, with the first arrivals coming in the autumn of the following year. Numbers on those schemes …
13 Jul 2026 Immigration and Asylum Bill
My hon. Friend is absolutely right—yes, they can and they do. That is the difference with a safe and legal route that has buy-in from communities across the country, and that is the basis on which we will build a system for the future.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice · Ministry of Justice 5 Jul 2024 – 5 Sep 2025
Opposition posts
- Shadow Secretary of State for Justice · Ministry of Justice 4 Sep 2023 – 30 May 2024
- National campaign co-ordinator · HM Official Opposition 9 May 2021 – 4 Sep 2023
- Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 8 May 2015 – 14 Sep 2015
- Shadow Minister (Treasury) · HM Treasury 7 Oct 2013 – 8 May 2015
- Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 7 Oct 2011 – 7 Oct 2013
- Shadow Minister (Home Affairs) · Home Office 8 Oct 2010 – 7 Oct 2011
Committee memberships
- Public Accounts Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 20 Apr 2021
- Public Accounts Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- International Trade Committee 31 Oct 2016 – 3 May 2017
- Draft Investigatory Powers Bill (Joint Committee) 26 Nov 2015 – 11 Feb 2016
- Work and Pensions Committee 12 Jul 2010 – 2 Nov 2010
Previous seats
- Birmingham, Ladywood · Elected 4 times 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Expenses
Contact & offices
0121 661 9440
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Shabana Mahmood, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Shabana Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood is a Member of Parliament representing Birmingham Ladywood in the House of Commons. See Shabana Mahmood's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Shabana Mahmood represent?
Shabana Mahmood sits as Labour. See Shabana Mahmood's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Shabana Mahmood represent?
Shabana Mahmood is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood. See Shabana Mahmood's official Parliament profile.
How long has Shabana Mahmood been an MP?
Shabana Mahmood has served in the House of Commons for 16 years, 2 months. See Shabana Mahmood's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Shabana Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has 4 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Shabana Mahmood's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 27 Jul 2026.