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Home | News | Integration and Cohesion- Tribute paid to Shaykh M I H Pirzada at the House of Commons (UK)

A debate on Integration and Cohesion took place on Tuesday 17 April 2007 at the House of Commons. In it Jamia Al-Karam’s Al-Karam Secondary School has been praised and a tribute paid to Shaykh M I H Pirzada for his remarkable efforts in this country in terms of community progress and cohesion and educating the young.

In his speech, the Member of Parliament for Newark and former Shadow Minister for Homeland Security, Patrick Mercer OBE, stated, “Unlike my two hon. Friends who have spoken, I have only a small Muslim community – and indeed only a small ethnic community – in my constituency, but it is amazingly influential.”

He further stated, “I pay tribute to the Al-Karam School, and in particular to Pirzada Sahib, who runs it. He has been instrumental in so much Sufi thinking in this country and in the British Muslim Forum. I spend a lot of time with Pirzada Sahib, and I hope that I have learned much from him. He has certainly attempted to teach me a great deal; whether it has succeeded is of course another matter.”

The entire parliamentary debate and these comments have been recorded in the House of Commons Official Report - HANSARD, Volume 459, No. 73, 34WH. (Click here to read the full speech available on the official online version of Hansard).

Hansard is an edited verbatim report of proceedings, in which Members' words are reported in accordance with terms of reference drawn up by a Select Committee in 1907 and reproduced in "Erskine May", the authoritative source on parliamentary procedure.

Hansard provides a clear and independent record of all the proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Commons, Westminster Hall, its Standing Committees and certain Select Committees. The report of one day’s sitting in the House up to 1 am, and sometimes beyond, is on Members’ breakfast tables the next morning. It is worth noting that, on one occasion, all the day’s proceedings until the rise of the House at 2.45 am were available in print form by 7.30 am.

Hansard is not named after any politician. Instead, it is named after T.C. Hansard, who privately printed House of Commons records in the 19th century.

 NEWS: 08/05/2007