Jeremy Corbyn has made further appointments to expand Labour's frontbench team following last week's reshuffle - including a role for Bradford East MP Imran Hussain.

He has been promoted to become shadow minister for international development.

He will be one of two people in the post, working under shadow secretary of state for international development Dianne Abbott, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to expand the team.

The role is likely to include examining issues like the global refugee crisis and human rights.

Mr Hussain, 37, said the act of increasing the size of Labour's shadow international development team showed just how significant the issue was to Mr Corbyn, particularly given the ongoing global refugee crisis.

He said: "I am of course extremely thankful to Jeremy for appointing me to this important position and looking forward to the task at hand.

"In the coming weeks, months and years, I will be focusing on increasing the scrutiny of the government’s decisions and policies in developing countries, and I will be putting forward ideas, along with the rest of the shadow international development team, on how we can help the poorest people in the world, how we can help refugees fleeing war, persecution and climate change, and how we can ensure that human rights are respected and upheld around the world.

"It will also help to raise the profile of Bradford and I will use the platform that it gives me to fight for better education, a better economy and better healthcare in the district.

"I came to Parliament in May last year to represent the people of Bradford, which I did within weeks by voting against cuts to welfare, so my constituency office door will continue to remain open throughout the week and priority will stay with my weekly advice surgeries on Fridays. 

"I will not let this position get in the way of my most important role, standing up for the people of Bradford."

Mr Hussain was previously a Parliamentary private secretary to the secretary of state for international development.

The former deputy leader of Bradford Council was elected to Parliament in May 2015 and was one of 36 Labour MPs to support Mr Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership battle last year. 

He had introduced Mr Corbyn as "the next Prime Minister" at an open-air rally in Bradford in August last year. 

Mr Hussain told the rally on a cricket field behind the Karmand Community Centre that some people had doubted his decision, along with another Yorkshire MP, to back Mr Corbyn.

Among the other new shadow ministers is Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire, who recently announced her return to Parliament following successful treatment for breast cancer and will take up a post shadowing the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

Ms Debbonaire and Mr Hussain are two of three MPs first elected in May 2015 to be given jobs, alongside Kate Osamor (Edmonton), who becomes shadow minister for women and equalities.

Dave Anderson, who has been MP for Blaydon since 2005, joins the Labour whips' office.

Corbyn aides said the appointments were to new roles, and were not part of the reshuffle, which saw two critics of the leader sacked and four shadow ministers resign.

Former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt - who refused to serve on Mr Corbyn's front bench - denounced the reshuffle as "divisive and futile" and said it had distracted attention from Labour campaigns on flooding, Europe and housing.

"You will recall that Europe spokesman Pat McFadden was sacked for suggesting that terrorists should be held accountable for their crimes.

Shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle was moved for supporting Labour Party policy. And culture minister Michael Dugher got the axe for not living in Islington," Mr Hunt wrote in The Spectator.

The appointments came as it was suggested that a potentially divisive review of Labour's policy on Trident could report within weeks.

Close Corbyn ally Ken Livingstone, who is co-chairing a review of the party's defence policy, said sections of the work relating to the nuclear deterrent could be completed in "eight to 10 weeks".

This would allow any recommendation for change in the party's stance to be published before David Cameron calls a Commons vote on a new generation of submarines to carry the nuclear missiles.

However, changing the official party policy would take longer, with the annual conference in September required to ratify a new position - something that could provoke a split in the shadow cabinet and would be opposed by several major trade unions, which fear job losses from the cancellation of Trident renewal.

Labour's policy is still officially in favour of maintaining the nuclear deterrent with submarines deployed around the clock able to launch a strike, but Mr Corbyn is committed to scrapping Trident.

As part of his reshuffle, Trident opponent Emily Thornberry was appointed shadow defence secretary and co-chairwoman of the review, in place of pro-renewal Maria Eagle.

Mr Livingstone told BBC2's Newsnight: "We will desperately try and do it as rapidly as possible. So we will focus on the Trident issue ahead of the rest of the defence review.

"With a bit of luck that can be done in eight to 10 weeks.

"It will take a lot of work for me and Emily, but that's good."

Former home secretary Alan Johnson said Labour must avoid another split, telling Newsnight: "One thing's for sure, we can't have two different positions."

He added: "I'm pro-Trident. I'm pro-nuclear disarmament through multilateral disarmament. I think everyone is looking for nuclear disarmament, it's the best way to get there."

Labour MP John Woodcock, whose Barrow and Furness seat includes the boatyards where the new submarines would be built, said the party should not "tear ourselves apart" over a project which was "going to happen anyway".

"There is a cast-iron majority in Parliament for this project to go past the point of no return," said Mr Woodcock.

"So no matter what Jeremy does, or even if he were to magic up a changed policy - which he won't - it's not going to make a difference to the fact that these submarines are going to be renewed."