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1696763

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the total cost to the public purse was of legal (a) support and (b) representation to Ministers in (i) her Department and (ii) the predecessor Department in relation to their official conduct in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	19021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>Such information is not centrally recorded or collated in the form requested. More generally, I would refer the hon. Member to the long-standing policies on legal expenditure, as set out recently by Cabinet Office Ministers on 12 March 20<ins class="ministerial">2</ins><del class="ministerial">0</del>4, Official Report, PQ 17709 and 12 March 2024, Official Report, House of Lords, Cols. 1901-1904.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 21/03/2024 16:35:13 question first ministerially corrected 25/03/2024 10:08:25 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani previous answer version 25256 answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1694902

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
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	Office for Investment: Infosys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many times the Office for Investment met with (a) Infosys and (b) Infosys representatives in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>An official from the Office for Investment attended a meeting between Infosys and the Minister for Investment on 27 April 2023, in Bengaluru, India.</p><p>The Office for Investment did not attend any meetings prior to this or afterwards with Infosys or their representatives in 2023.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 19/03/2024 15:25:07 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1695060

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, to which domestic destinations Ministers in her Department and its predecessor Departments have attended overnight visits in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p><strong>The regions visited with an overnight stay over the last 3 financial years are as follows:</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Regions visited</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021 – 2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland – 12</strong> <strong>Northern Powerhouse – 4</strong> <strong>Wales – 1</strong> <strong>South West – 2</strong> <strong>Jersey – 1</strong> <strong>Northern Ireland – 2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022 – 2023</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland – 3</strong> <strong>Northern Ireland – 4</strong> <strong>South West – 2</strong> <strong>Northern Powerhouse – 2</strong> <strong>Wales – 1 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2023 – 2024</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Powerhouse – 3</strong> <strong>Northern Ireland – 7</strong> <strong>Midlands – 1</strong> <strong>Scotland – 1</strong> <strong>Channel Islands – 2</strong> <strong>South West – 1</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 14/03/2024 15:50:36 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1694471

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many domestic overnight visits were undertaken by Ministers in (a) her Department and (b) its predecessor Department in each of the last three financial years; and what the cost of those visits was.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The number of overnight ministerial domestic visits undertaken over the last 3 financial years are as follows. The total costs provided are limited in scope, to only the Minister themselves, and to those booked through the Department's, and its predecessor's (the Department for International Trade), contracted travel provider, which covers costs of rail, air and hotel; where these costs were available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of overnight visits</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021 - 2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£6,470.97</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022 - 2023</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,493.86</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2023 - 2024</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£4,514.84</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/03/2024 13:46:50 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693800

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: Fraud and Maladministration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her Department in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is proud of its record in proactively seeking to find and prevent more fraud in the system. We have established the dedicated Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.</p><p>The PSFA produces a Fraud Landscape Report. This provides data on fraud and error detection, loss and recoveries in central government, outside of the tax and welfare system. The 2020/21 Report was published in March 2023.</p><p>Due to the recent Machinery of Government changes, the Department for Business and Trade have not yet published any fraud and error estimates.</p><p>The latest published figures available for the Department for International Trade are available in the 2022 Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Annual Report.</p><p>The latest Government figures made available in the BEIS Annual Report and Accounts (2022/2023), for all BEIS activities, indicated that estimated expected losses due to fraud and error within the Bounce Back Loan Scheme will be £1.74bn. There are not material levels of fraud and error within the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme or the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme.</p><p>Other losses include £4 million in relation to 2 suspected fraudulent payments within the Future Fund Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/03/2024 17:44:52 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693250

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what reports and guidance their Department and its predecessor Department has produced in the last three years; and how much was spent on their (a) printing and (b) distribution.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department. Reports and guidance that the Department has published can be found on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/03/2024 16:57:31 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693522

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: WhatsApp
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance her Department issues on the use of WhatsApp.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>All departments in central government, including arms lengths bodies apply the published guidance: Using non-corporate communication channels (e.g. WhatsApp, private email, SMS) for government business). This was published by the Cabinet Office in March 2023.</p><p>It applies to all individuals in central government (ministers, special advisers, officials, contractors, non-executive board members and independent experts advising ministers). The Department for Business and Trade uses the central guidance and has applied it since March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/03/2024 11:36:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1692769

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Department for Business and Trade: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department and its predecessor Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department buys advertising media through its media buying agency Omnicom Media Group UK Ltd. Advertising is used to promote investment and UK exports.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s general ledger records spend with Omnicom Media Group for the last three years for which figures are available as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2020/21: £15,102,407.21</p><p>2021/22: £11,890,853.20</p><p>2022/23: £13,124,598.26</p><p> </p><p>Advertising is part of the Department’s wider marketing strategy. Budgeting is carried out at the marketing category level, so no records are held on sums specifically budgeted for advertising.</p><p> </p><p>These figures relate to the Department’s predecessor department, the Department for International Trade.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 06/03/2024 17:17:07 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden