2019

On Sunday 13 October 2019, I arranged for the High Commissioner for Bangladesh, Saida Muna Tasneem, to visit a new mosque which is nearing completion on Cook Street in Darlaston. I am pictured above with the High Commissioner and Nahid Ahmed.

I was delighted to attend the third British Bangladeshi Business Awards at The Bingley Hall in Birmingham on Thursday 9 October 2019. The Awards are organised by Desh Foundation UK which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Desh Foundation UK was founded by Mishbaur Rahman in 2009 as a small local community-based organisation to encourage business development within the Bangladeshi community in the UK.

A Point of Order is a clarification on a matter of procedure in the House of Commons. On Tuesday 8 October 2019, I raised the following Point of Order:

On behalf of HM Official Opposition, I responded to the motion on the appointment of an lay member to the Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.