On 2 December 2015 MPs voted in the Commons on whether the UK should join US-led coalition air strikes against so-called Islamic State militants in Syria.

Rushanara Ali MP attacked George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, calling attention to a decade of damaging future Government cuts which will hurt families across the country.

Rushanara Ali MP questioned the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, on the Government’s failure to hit key environmental targets ahead of landmark climate change talks in December.

Rushanara Ali MP has raised the plight of residents across Tower Hamlets facing eviction from their homes in Parliament, after hearing their concerns in a meeting last week.

Rushanara Ali MP will join the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee. The Energy and Climate Change Committee is made up of 11 MPs from across the main political parties. It is empowered to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Rushanara Ali MP questioned the Chancellor at today’s Treasury Questions on his plans both to ‘slash’ tax credits for working families and to deliver the news to families in time for Christmas, as reports have suggested.

Rushanara Ali MP today vowed to continue fighting for childcare for single parents to enable them to get back into work, after an amendment tabled by her and Labour colleagues was defeated at Committee stage of the Government’s Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

Rushanara Ali MP questioned Government Ministers on local authorities and mental health trusts freezing or cutting funding for mental health treatment for children and young adults.

Rushanara Ali voted for Labour’s amendment to the Government’s Welfare Bill. 

In light of the reports that the three young women who left their homes in Bethnal Green have now been smuggled across the Syrian border, Rushanara Ali MP called upon the Prime Minister to ensure the Government continues to make every effort to find the three young women and encourage their return.