City Building Awarded Queens Award for Enterprise: Promoting Opportunity

That the Parliament congratulates City Building on being awarded its third Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Promoting Opportunity category; understands that this award recognises businesses and organisations delivering social programmes to help people from disadvantaged backgrounds create successful working lives; understands that, for several years, City Building has taken steps to ensure that those from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds are given equal opportunities, by targeting recruitment amongst BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) communities, people with disabilities and encouraging women to take up roles in the construction sector and providing rigorous training to all employees at all levels; appreciates that the Queen’s Award for Enterprise celebrates outstanding achievements from organisations across the UK and is recognised as the most prestigious award any business can win; celebrates this as the third Queen’s Award for Enterprise that City Building has won, having previously been granted the Sustainable Development Award in both 2018 and 2012; notes that with the award, City Building has become just one of 18 companies to be recognised in 2021, and understands that His Majesty King Charles III praised the company for its work in developing a new generation of construction workers when he met its executive director Alan Burns, and that the Promoting Opportunity award holds special relevance to City Building as recognition of its commitment to developing its workforce.