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1384591

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Government has spent on housing benefit for supported exempt accommodation in England in 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 08/12/2021 17:31:18 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384592

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the proposed role of Building Safety Manager.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>The Building Safety Manager, who can be an organisation or individual, will play a key role in assisting and helping to ensuring that Accountable Persons meet their obligations. Building Safety Managers must be competent to support in the day-to-day management of fire and structural safety in the building.</p><p>To ensure a robust and consistent approach to assuring competence, we are sponsoring the British Standards Institution to create a suite of national competence standards for higher risk buildings. This will include the competence framework for the Building Safety Manager and other key roles.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/12/2021 17:16:31 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384594

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the cost to the public purse of the proposed Building Safety Managers and (b) whether that costs constitutes value for money.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>The Building Safety Manager will be an individual or organisation who is appointed by, and enters into contract with, the Principal Accountable Person. It is not expected for the costs to fall on the public purse.</p><p>In line with recommendations set out by Dame Judith Hackitt, their role is to support Accountable Persons in the management of fire and structural safety in occupied high-rise residential buildings that are in scope of the new regime. A competent Building Safety Manager must be appointed for all occupied buildings, with the exception of where the Principal Accountable Person has notified the Building Safety Regulator that they have the requisite competence and capability and will fulfil the role themselves.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring safe outcomes for residents of high-rise buildings; Building Safety Managers will provide expertise and assistance to help ensure residents feel safe in their homes.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/12/2021 17:17:11 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384596

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent progress his Department has made on its re-evaluation of the loan scheme for building under 18 metres.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>We are looking closely at this issue to make sure everything is being done to support leaseholders. This will be informed by new data from further survey work to understand the prevalence of unsafe cladding in medium rise buildings of 11-18 metres. The Government remains committed to protecting leaseholders from unaffordable costs. Further detail on the support offer for leaseholders in residential buildings of 11-18 metres will be released when all options have been fully considered.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/12/2021 17:17:38 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384597

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether an EWS1 form is required for a building below 18 metres.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>An independent expert statement in July this year was clear that there is no systemic risk of fire in residential buildings under 18 metres and that EWS1s should not be required by lenders on buildings under 18 metres. The Government strongly supports this position and made this clear in its written statement of 21 July.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/12/2021 17:18:02 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384598

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether the Government is providing funding for leaseholders living in buildings that do not have combustible cladding but do have other fire safety defects, such as combustible insulation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>Longstanding independent safety advice has been clear that unsafe cladding poses the greatest risk to buildings because it can act as a fuel to a fire. Our approach prioritises action on the risks of unsafe cladding – the costs for remediating this are high, and the risks posed by it are also high. Building owners and industry should make buildings safe without passing on costs to leaseholders and we are introducing new measures that will legally require building owners to prove they have tried all routes to cover costs. The Government remains committed to protecting leaseholders from unaffordable costs. We are looking closely at this issue to make sure everything is being done to support leaseholders. The Building Safety Bill will bring about a fundamental change in both the regulatory framework for building safety and construction industry culture, creating a more accountable system.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/12/2021 17:18:41 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384599

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has been made of the number of people living in exempt accommodation who have incorrectly had their housing benefit stopped after providers have fraudulently claimed that residents were not engaging in the contractual care and support services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 08/12/2021 17:46:18 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384600

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Housing Benefit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what processes are in place to independently verify claims of exempt accommodation providers that residents have not been engaging with the care and support services they are contractually obliged to provide.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2021 answer text <p>Supported Housing provides a vital service to some of the most vulnerable people in society and the care, support or supervision they are provided with helps them to live as independently as possible in the community.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are responsible for the oversight of supported housing in their respective areas. The Government does not oversee the delivery of support services or individual engagement with those services.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 08/12/2021 17:44:34 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1384601

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason an impact assessment was not completed for the Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 which came into force on 15 December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	86553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2021 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment had not been prepared for the Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 because they restore the original policy intent of Universal Credit.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/12/2021 17:26:05 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood