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date	23/11/2023
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	Dams: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to promote international safety standards for tailings dams following the collapse of the Fundão Dam near Mariana in Brazil in 2015.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business &amp; Trade's (DBT) Responsible Mining Team in Brazil have promoted best practice on tailings dams since 2016. They led a mission to the UK in November to build on work to implement the Global Industrial Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) and have organised roundtables in partnership with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote the GISTM in Brazil. UK Ministers for the Americas and Europe have highlighted work to improve safety measures around tailings dam management, including in October in a meeting with the law firm representing victims of the Mariana Dam incident and at a Westminster Hall Debate in June.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL543 question first answered 07/12/2023 14:13:39 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1466070

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date	25/05/2022
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	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Infosys
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many contracts were awarded to Infosys in the last five years by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and what was the cost to the taxpayer of each of those contracts.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
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answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>Officials have found no record of any contracts having been awarded by the FCDO to Infosys in that timeframe.</p><p>Records of Government contracts above £10,000 in central government and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder:</p><p>https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 14/06/2022 16:42:13 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham