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1387626

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date	14/12/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Xinjiang: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the naming of alleged perpetrators of gross human rights abuses named in the Xinjiang Papers released at the Uyghur Tribunal, including Chen Quanguo, Zhu Hailun and Zhu Changje.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	92858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text The Government notes the findings of the Uyghur Tribunal, and welcomes its contribution to building international awareness and understanding of the human rights violations occurring in Xinjiang. The Tribunal's work adds to the growing body of evidence about the deeply disturbing situation that Uyghurs and other minorities are facing. The UK Government has consistently led international efforts to hold China to account for its human rights violations in Xinjiang, including by using our Global Human Rights sanctions regime to impose asset bans and travel freezes on Chinese actors responsible for enforcing China's repressive policies. We will continue to work closely with our international partners to hold the Chinese authorities to account, including at the UN. answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 20/12/2021 18:15:06 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387748

registered interest
date	14/12/2021
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 training and qualification requirements building safety managers will need.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	92859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <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><p><br> It is important that industry takes ownership of improving competence to ensure change is meaningful and sustained. Industry is best placed to ensure supply of Building Safety Managers can meet demand and is already leading the work to develop the competence framework for Building Safety Managers. We fully support these efforts</p><p><br> The Government intends to provide statutory guidance to support how the competence of the Building Safety Manager is assessed and assured. We expect that statutory guidance would provide examples of how the Building Safety Manager might meet the competence requirements, making reference to the Publicly Available Specification and, if sufficiently robust, accredited industry-run registers.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 92860 92861 question first answered 20/12/2021 17:50:33 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387750

registered interest
date	14/12/2021
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 plans he has to support building safety managers to access ongoing training to ensure their knowledge base is up to date.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	92860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <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><p><br> It is important that industry takes ownership of improving competence to ensure change is meaningful and sustained. Industry is best placed to ensure supply of Building Safety Managers can meet demand and is already leading the work to develop the competence framework for Building Safety Managers. We fully support these efforts</p><p><br> The Government intends to provide statutory guidance to support how the competence of the Building Safety Manager is assessed and assured. We expect that statutory guidance would provide examples of how the Building Safety Manager might meet the competence requirements, making reference to the Publicly Available Specification and, if sufficiently robust, accredited industry-run registers.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 92859 92861 question first answered 20/12/2021 17:50:33 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387751

registered interest
date	14/12/2021
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 he has made of (a) the training support and guidance that building safety managers will need and (b) the cost of that training support and guidance.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	92861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <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><p><br> It is important that industry takes ownership of improving competence to ensure change is meaningful and sustained. Industry is best placed to ensure supply of Building Safety Managers can meet demand and is already leading the work to develop the competence framework for Building Safety Managers. We fully support these efforts</p><p><br> The Government intends to provide statutory guidance to support how the competence of the Building Safety Manager is assessed and assured. We expect that statutory guidance would provide examples of how the Building Safety Manager might meet the competence requirements, making reference to the Publicly Available Specification and, if sufficiently robust, accredited industry-run registers.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher grouped question UIN 92859 92860 question first answered 20/12/2021 17:50:33 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387470

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Medals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2021 to Question 80944 on Prison Officers: Medals, whether prison officers with an accumulated five years of service employed by his Department qualify as eligible to receive the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2021 answer text <p>To qualify for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal staff must be in an eligible operational role in the public-sector prison service on 6 February 2022 and have completed 5 years operational service. The eligibility criteria does allow for operational public-sector service to be aggregated, which means that operational staff who have moved to a private-sector prison or a non-operational role for a period during their career, can include any previous operational public-sector service and aggregate it with service accumulated since they returned to their operational public-sector role.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/12/2021 12:40:50 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387473

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
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: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the £510 million of funding for tackling benefit fraud will include any potential cases involving housing benefit fraud by providers of supported exempt accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The additional £510m announced on 13<sup>th</sup> December 2021 is new funding that will enable us to drive down the level of fraud in Universal Credit and recover more debt.</p><p> </p><p>It will support several different methods of fraud detection and prevention, including a targeted review of Universal Credit claims, the development of a new Debt Enforcement Function and further recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance and Debt directorate, so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats.</p><p> </p><p>This recruitment, which includes funding for around 2,000 trained specialists, will help tackle fraud across a range of benefits, including any Housing Benefit related fraud.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2021, the Department also secured an additional £103m for fraud and error activity. This funding is enabling DWP to continue key fraud and error detection and prevention work, and secured the completion of our current transformation programme, thus enhancing our ability to prevent and detect fraud and error.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 91905 91906 question first answered 20/12/2021 10:14:55 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387484

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
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: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the £510 million of funding allocated to tackling benefit fraud will be allocated to tackling housing benefit fraud.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The additional £510m announced on 13<sup>th</sup> December 2021 is new funding that will enable us to drive down the level of fraud in Universal Credit and recover more debt.</p><p> </p><p>It will support several different methods of fraud detection and prevention, including a targeted review of Universal Credit claims, the development of a new Debt Enforcement Function and further recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance and Debt directorate, so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats.</p><p> </p><p>This recruitment, which includes funding for around 2,000 trained specialists, will help tackle fraud across a range of benefits, including any Housing Benefit related fraud.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2021, the Department also secured an additional £103m for fraud and error activity. This funding is enabling DWP to continue key fraud and error detection and prevention work, and secured the completion of our current transformation programme, thus enhancing our ability to prevent and detect fraud and error.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 91904 91906 question first answered 20/12/2021 10:14:55 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387485

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much of the £510 million announced for tackling benefit fraud is (a) new funding and (b) previously allocated funding.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>The additional £510m announced on 13<sup>th</sup> December 2021 is new funding that will enable us to drive down the level of fraud in Universal Credit and recover more debt.</p><p> </p><p>It will support several different methods of fraud detection and prevention, including a targeted review of Universal Credit claims, the development of a new Debt Enforcement Function and further recruitment into the Counter Fraud and Compliance and Debt directorate, so that we can continue to respond quickly and effectively to threats.</p><p> </p><p>This recruitment, which includes funding for around 2,000 trained specialists, will help tackle fraud across a range of benefits, including any Housing Benefit related fraud.</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2021, the Department also secured an additional £103m for fraud and error activity. This funding is enabling DWP to continue key fraud and error detection and prevention work, and secured the completion of our current transformation programme, thus enhancing our ability to prevent and detect fraud and error.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 91904 91905 question first answered 20/12/2021 10:14:55 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387489

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Xinjiang: Uyghurs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to evidence in the Xinjiang Papers submitted to the Uyghur Tribunal, what assessment she has been made of the accuracy of reports that Chinese official Chen Quanguo and his deputies Zhu Hailun and Zhu Changjie played a direct role in commissioning the network of mass internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>The evidence submitted to the Uyghur Tribunal adds to the growing body of evidence about the situation that Uyghurs and other minorities are facing in Xinjiang. The UK government has consistently led international efforts to hold China to account for its human rights violations in Xinjiang, including by using our Global Human Rights sanctions regime to impose asset bans and travel freezes on Chinese actors responsible for enforcing China's repressive policies. We will continue to work closely with our international partners in holding China to account for the egregious human rights situation in Xinjiang.</p> answering member constituency Cannock Chase answering member printed Amanda Milling question first answered 16/12/2021 16:12:06 answering member 4454 label Biography information for Dame Amanda Milling
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1387491

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Integrated Rail Plan, whether the Midlands will receive the same amount of public transport funding per head as London and the South East.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	91908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2021 answer text <p>To help level-up across the country, we are delivering a step change in investment in public transport focused outside of London and the South East. The recently announced Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands outlined a £96 billion strategy of rail construction and upgrades. This builds on the substantive investment that is targeted outside of London announced at the Budget which included £5.7 billion for our major cities through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements; over £2.7 billion for local road maintenance; and a new, dedicated £1.2 billion programme to improve bus infrastructure, fares and services.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/12/2021 10:46:00 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood