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1694139

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date	06/03/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Fraud and Maladministration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate he has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by his Department in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Dame Nia Griffith
uin	17318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office reported no cases of fraud or amounts lost due to fraud or error in any of the last three financial years. This is disclosed as part of the Annual Report and Accounts available on GOV.UK.</p><p>The PSFA produces a Fraud Landscape Report:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landscape-annual-report-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landscape-annual-report-2022</a>.</p><p>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>The Government is proud of its record in proactively seeking to find and prevent more fraud. We have established the dedicated Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year, it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 12/03/2024 14:25:47 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1694288

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date	06/03/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Integrated Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 16419 on Integrated Schools: Northern Ireland, on what date the Northern Ireland Executive was informed of the removal of the ring-fence for the £150m Fresh Start Agreement funding.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
uin	17460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>HM Treasury officials wrote to their counterparts in the Northern Ireland Department of Finance on 1 March 2024 formally confirming the removal of the ring-fence for £150 million of Fresh Start Agreement funding.</p><p> </p><p>This formal confirmation followed official level discussions between the UK Government and the Northern Ireland Civil Service on UK Government funding streams being made available within the financial package to support the restored Executive.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 12/03/2024 14:23:57 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1693995

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Protocol
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Caine on 4 March and with regard to paragraphs 54 and 65 of the relevant Supreme Court judgment, whether they can confirm that the inconsistency between the Acts of Union and the protocol was not at issue before the Supreme Court because the Government did not lodge any cross appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision that such inconsistency existed.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL3032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Supreme Court clearly set out in its judgement of 8 February 2023 the issues it considered and its reasoning for reaching the conclusions it did.</p><p>The Government’s consistent position on these matters is set out in the <em>Safeguarding the Union </em>Command Paper, which is that the Windsor Framework (which replaced the old Protocol) applies entirely consistently with Northern Ireland’s constitutional position within the United Kingdom, including as expressed in the relevant statute today.</p> answering member printed Lord Caine question first answered 12/03/2024 14:23:14 answering member 4581 label Biography information for Lord Caine
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1693262

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Cancer: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with the (a) Department for Health and Social Care and (b) Department for Transport on providing financial support for young cancer patients (0-25) and their families travelling from Northern Ireland to receive treatment in England.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	16726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>This matter is devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive. Arrangements for financial support for young cancer patients and their families travelling from Northern Ireland to receive treatment in England is a matter for the Northern Ireland Department of Health and local Health and Social Care Trusts.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 12/03/2024 14:18:19 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley