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	registered interest
	date	26/04/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Business: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to (a) prevent the setting up of fraudulent businesses and (b) improve the security and verification process when registering a business.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	uin	182995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, currently passing through Parliament, includes measures to reform the role of Companies House and improve transparency over UK companies, to strengthen our business environment and support our national security and combat economic crime, whilst delivering a more reliable companies register to underpin business activity.</p><p>The Bill will make it much easier to identify and clamp down on fraudulent companies, by giving Companies House new powers to check, challenge, and decline any dubious information on the Register, and by introducing identity verification for new and existing directors, beneficial owners and those who file information with Companies House.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 03/05/2023 11:12:27 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1488349

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Business: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on producing an estimate for the total financial cost of fraud committed against businesses in the UK in (a) financial year 2020-21, (b) calendar year 2021 and (c) financial year 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	34853
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has regular meetings with Cabinet colleagues on a variety of issues. Fraud policy is not a matter for BEIS.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Jane Hunt question first answered 20/07/2022 17:08:17 answering member 4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1611322

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Business: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to allow businesses to share data for the purpose of tackling fraud.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
	uin	180950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working with industry to close the vulnerabilities in systems, processes and businesses that are exploited by fraudsters and ensure they have the necessary tools to protect themselves from fraudsters. This is why the Home Office will shortly be publishing a new strategy to address the threat of fraud.</p><p>Reforms in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill will also enable businesses to share information more easily for the purposes of preventing, investigating or detecting economic crime by disapplying civil liability for breaches of confidentiality for firms who share information to combat economic crime. This includes for the prevention of fraud. In parallel, reforms to GDPR via provisions in the Data Protection and Digital Identity Bill will provide a clearer legal basis for businesses sharing information for crime prevention purposes.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 20/04/2023 16:49:56 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms