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Written questions

Shabana Mahmood

621 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Licensed Premises: Smoking

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what progress his Department has made on its work with local authorities on the regulation and management of shisha premises.

6 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Building Safety Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding available through the Building Safety Fund to meet (a) current and (b) future demand.

5 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to evaluate the (a) effectiveness and (b) cost efficiency of the Building Safety Manager role.

5 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the public purse of commissioning the British Standards Institution to create a competence framework for the Building Safety Mana

14 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

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.

14 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

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.

14 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what training and qualification requirements building safety managers will need.

14 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Xinjiang: Human Rights

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 a

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport

Railways: Birmingham and Nottingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the economic impact of the potential agglomeration of Nottingham and Birmingham, which will be made possible by the introduction of high speed trains.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport

Railways: Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the economic benefits for the Midlands from the roll-out of smart ticketing as outlined in the Integrated Rail Plan.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Midlands

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.

13 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Xinjiang: Uyghurs

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 Qu

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Fraud

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.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Fraud

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.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Fraud

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.

13 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Medals

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

10 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of UK nationals evacuated by her Department from Afghanistan during Operation Pitting.

10 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of UK Nationals currently residing in Afghanistan.

10 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Afghanistan: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate the Government has made of the number of UK Nationals that applied for evacuation from Afghanistan during (a) August and (b) September 2021.

10 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of Afghan relatives of UK nationals who received advice from her Department on settling in the UK.

10 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the level of support that is offered to (a) UK nationals and (b) UK nationals’ relatives living in Afghanistan to apply to the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.

10 Dec 2021 · Home Office

Resettlement: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme will begin bringing those eligible for the scheme to the UK.

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit (Exceptions to the Requirement not to be receiving Education) (Amendment) Regulations

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 Dec

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

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 pr

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit

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 wer

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

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 insu

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether an EWS1 form is required for a building below 18 metres.

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

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.

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

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.

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Safety

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.

Source: official written-questions record.