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date	29/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	ICT: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) technology and (b) telecommunications companies help to prevent fraud.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	11765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Online Safety Act (OSA) received Royal Assent last year and will require the tech sector to tackle fraud on their platforms or face significant fines from Ofcom.</p><p>Alongside the OSA, on the 30<sup>th</sup> November, the Government announced the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65688713cc1ec5000d8eef96/Online_Fraud_Charter_2023.pdf" target="_blank">Online Fraud Charter</a>. This is the first voluntary agreement of its kind, in which the largest tech companies in the world have committed to implementing new measures to combat fraud in the UK. The Charter’s commitments seek improvements to blocking fraud at source, making reporting fraud easier for users and decreasing the time it takes to remove content and ads found to be fraudulent. The Charter also seeks to improve data sharing across the sector and with law enforcement, and to increase the transparency of risks on platforms and services.</p><p>The Government and the telecommunications industry also signed the Telecommunications Fraud Sector Charter in 2021. Since then, the sector has introduced firewalls that detect and stop scam texts from reaching customers, as well as deploying measures to prevent scam calls. The firewalls have stopped 870 million scam text messages since January 2022.</p><p>The Government is also taking legislative action to ban “SIM farms”, devices that allow criminals to send scam texts to thousands of people at the same time.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 06/02/2024 14:29:11 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

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date	01/06/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Insects: UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase the speed and (b) reduce the administrative costs of border checks to enable the UK's insect breeding industry to sell their products in the EU market.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	11765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Exports to the EU are subject to the EU’s import controls. All border checks at EU Border Control Posts are managed by the EU and associated costs are set out in EU law.</p><p> </p><p>Exports of live insects for human consumption require the relevant Export Health Certificate (EHC), which are available via EHC Online. Exports of live insects not-for human consumption are subject to National Rules, meaning individual Member States can set their own import requirements.</p><p> </p><p>There is no fee for the EHC itself when issued by the Animal and Plant Health Agency; however, an EHC needs to be certified by a suitably qualified certifying officer who will likely charge for their time. Official Veterinarians (OV) operate in a private market and will charge accordingly. Local authorities can charge on a cost recovery basis for the time of their Food Competent Certifying Officers. The number of OVs qualified to certify products of animal origin has increased from around 600 in 2019 to over 2,000 to date.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 13/06/2022 16:00:59 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

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registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was spent on housing benefit between 2010 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Pontypridd
tabling member printed	Owen Smith
uin	11765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Housing Benefit expenditure information is available in our Benefit Expenditure tables which can be found at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2015</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/10/2015 12:58:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4042 label Biography information for Owen Smith