This MP's expenses cost £7.23 per taxpayer in Birmingham Ladywood per year.
HMRC PAYE 2023-24, ONS constituency table.
How They Voted
VOTED AGAINST Assisted Dying Bill
VOTED FOR House of Lords Hereditary Peers
VOTED AGAINST Defence Spending 2.5% GDP
Recent Public Statements
Latest verbatim posts and speeches from Shabana Mahmood on Bluesky and gov.uk. Sourced directly from public APIs. No paraphrase, no editorialising.
A historic £100 million will drive a crackdown on child sexual abuse, including tracking down vile grooming gang members, protecting victims and bringing offenders to justice. Perpetrators who thought they got away with horrific grooming gang offences will be held to account as closed cases are reopened. Operation Beaconport will receive a tenfold cash injec…Read full ↗
Organised crime gangs operating across Britain’s high streets will be hit with a major police offensive in a new nationwide crackdown on dodgy shops. Rogue barber shops, vape stores, mini-marts and sweet shops linked to organised crime will face raids, closures and cash seizures under a new £30 million crackdown targeting money laundering, tax evasion, and i…Read full ↗
The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) has today (30 April 2026) raised the UK national threat level from substantial, meaning an attack is likely, to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely in the next 6 months. The increase in threat comes following yesterday’s stabbing in Golders Green in North London, but it is not solely a result of that attack. …Read full ↗
The United Kingdom and France today signed an agreement to strengthen operations to combat illegal migration in northern France to prevent crossings to the United Kingdom with a significant increase in dedicated human, technological and intelligence resources. Since the 2024 UK election, work between the UK and France has prevented more than 42,000 illegal m…Read full ↗
Police will be told to stop recording everyday rows and online spats, as non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) are to be scrapped by the government. Over recent years, unclear guidance has led to officers being called out to people’s homes over insults and routine arguments. A lack of clarity around when and how NCHIs should be recorded, the rise of the digital a…Read full ↗
An ‘emergency brake’ on visas has been imposed for the first time on nationals from 4 countries following a surge in asylum claims from legal routes. By the year ending September 2025, asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan had risen to over 470% of their 2021 level – making them among the most likely nationalities to c…Read full ↗
Sir Robert Buckland KC has been appointed to lead an independent review to explore any missed opportunities that could have prevented the murder of Sir David Amess. The Home Secretary has appointed Sir Robert Buckland KC, who was previously Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and Solicitor General for England and Wales, as well as having a dis…Read full ↗
Visa overstayers, foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers will be removed from British soil far more easily under a new agreement struck this week during the state visit of Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu. UK letters, an alternative identification document issued to individuals without a valid passport and used to support the return of people with no ri…Read full ↗
22 more recent statements available.
Said One Thing, Voted Another?
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With your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement on the independent inquiry into grooming gangs, the appointment of its chair and panel, and the inquiry’s terms of reference. I know that, for many, this day is long overdue. For years, the victims of these awful …Grooming Gangs: Independent Inquiry · 2025-12-09
The previous Government lost control of our borders, and the result was a ruinously expensive asylum system that used more than 400 hotels at a cost of nearly £9 million a day. We have acted to cut those costs, with fewer than 200 hotels now in use. Our historic agreement with Fr …Channel Crossings · 2025-11-17
Let me say, first and foremost, that the murder of Rhiannon Whyte was an abhorrent, horrifying crime and our thoughts, and I know those of the whole House, are with her loved ones. The vile criminal responsible for her murder is behind bars where he belongs, and he has rightly re …Asylum Seekers: Recorded Crime · 2026-03-23
sweeping measures announced today include sanctions on the Russian military intelligence agency (GRU) in its entirety, as Dawn Sturgess Inquiry’s final report finds Putin personally ordered their activity in Salisbury in 2018 UK sanctions and exposes 11 actors behind Russian stat …UK cracks down on Russian intelligence agency authorised by Putin to target Skripals · 2025-12-04
Expenses Breakdown
Total: £287,702. Rank: #127 of 650 MPs. Source: IPSA.
What They Actually Claimed For
Itemised IPSA claims for the 380 expense lines this MP submitted. Total paid: £568,214. Source: IPSA individualBusinessCosts.
61 items for review
- £865 Single claim of £865.03 for Council tax (Accommodation) on 25/03/2024.
- £21,600 Single claim of £21,600.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 31/03/2025.
- £670 Single claim of £669.58 for Utilities (Water) on 06/03/2025.
- £626 Single claim of £626.40 for Mileage - car (MP Travel) on 31/03/2025.
- £509 Single claim of £509.40 for Business rates (Office Costs) on 04/03/2025.
- £550 Single claim of £550.00 for Equipment - hire (Printer, photocopier & scanner) on 31/12/2024.
- £765 Single claim of £765.00 for Equipment - hire (Printer, photocopier & scanner) on 08/06/2024.
- £704 Single claim of £704.40 for Equipment - hire (Printer, photocopier & scanner) on 06/08/2024.
- £524 Single claim of £524.40 for Equipment - hire (Printer, photocopier & scanner) on 19/10/2024.
- £576 Single claim of £575.98 for Equipment - purchase (Office furniture) on 03/03/2025.
- £1,015 Single claim of £1,014.64 for Equipment - purchase (Computer, laptop, PC, tablet & accessories) on 13/05/2024.
- £10,966 Single claim of £10,966.05 for Rent (Office Costs) on 31/03/2025.
- £720 Single claim of £720.00 for Software & applications (Office Costs) on 15/10/2024.
- £531 Single claim of £530.74 for Utilities (Electricity) on 14/02/2025.
- £2,288 Single claim of £2,287.59 for Rail (Staff Travel) on 31/03/2025.
- £768 Single claim of £768.12 for Council tax (Accommodation) on 28/03/2023.
- £811 Single claim of £810.71 for Council tax (Accommodation) on 14/06/2023.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 05/03/2024.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 01/08/2023.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 01/02/2024.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 05/01/2024.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 05/09/2023.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 05/12/2023.
- £1,800 Single claim of £1,800.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 04/07/2023.
- £1,600 Single claim of £1,600.00 for Rent (Accommodation) on 02/05/2023.
Search the top 30 claims paid
Showing 20 of 30 claims. Total paid £510,855
Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year0
£229,274
Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2023-24 year0
£205,718
Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-250
£21,600
Aggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-250
£10,966
Aggregated figure for travel during 2023-240
£3,863
Comms & Media0
£3,600
Parliamentary Research Service (Labour)0
£3,000
Aggregated figure for travel during 2024-250
£2,288
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Year on year
FY 23-24 172 claims £264,783
FY 24-25 155 claims £287,841
FY 25-26 53 claims £15,590
Travel
£9,292 paid across 0 trips.
Accommodation
£51,260 paid across 0 nights.
Gifts and Hospitality
7 gift(s) received. Source: Ministerial Gifts Register.
Community Security Trust
Geordie Greig, Editor-In-Chief, The Independent
LBC Radio
Lotus Portrait
The Spectator
Holocaust Educational Trust
Lord Mayor of London
Companies House
1 directorship(s) found. 1 active. Network size: 2. Source: Companies House API.
HRSM CAPITAL LTD #13928154 active
Red Flags
Warning
potentially undeclared directorship: Active directorship of HRSM CAPITAL LTD (#13928154) may not be declared in Register. Confidence: likely.
Source: Companies House + Parliament Register | Confidence: likely
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