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1486108

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) direct employees, (b) contractors, and (c) agency workers who work in their Department and relevant agencies and public bodies, receive a wage below that of either (i) the UK Real Living Wage outside of Greater London, or (ii) the London Living Wage inside of Greater London, as determined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	29982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>As of 31/03/2022, the total number of full-time employees in HM Treasury earning below the London Living Wage rate of £11.05 per hour was 17. This number is comprised mainly of apprentices. The Living Wage rate is a suggested rate of pay by the Living Wage Foundation, rather than a legislated minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>All HM Treasury employees are paid above the statutory minimum wage. Since 31/03/2022 we have been conducting a review of all pay ranges across the department in line with this year’s Cabinet Office remit guidance.</p><p> </p><p>As pay and conditions are set between employee and employer, the rate of pay for agency workers and contractors will be determined by the company for which they work and not HM Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 11/07/2022 17:06:43 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1466494

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of his oral statement, Economy Update, on 26 May 2022, Official Report, on the cost of capital and investment for electricity generators in the context of uncertainty on the steps he plans to take in response to power generation profits.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	9862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>As the Chancellor set out in his statement on the cost of living support the Government is urgently evaluating the scale of extraordinary profits in the energy generation sector and the appropriate next steps.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this process, and to mitigate potential uncertainty, officials are urgently engaging with industry stakeholders on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 06/06/2022 10:41:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1466495

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will place in the Library a revised forecast of the expected level of public sector net borrowing in the 2022-23 financial year, incorporating the impact of announcements made by the Chancellor to the House on 26 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	9863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text The Chancellor will in due course commission a forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), as set out by the Charter for Budget Responsibility. The OBR will incorporate the impact of new policy in their next economic and fiscal forecast, including measures that have been announced since the last forecast event. answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 9864 question first answered 06/06/2022 09:05:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1466497

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will direct the Office for Budget Responsibility to produce a revised forecast of growth in real gross domestic product, consumer price inflation and public sector net borrowing for the 2022-23 financial year, incorporating the impact of announcements he made to the House on 26 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	9864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text The Chancellor will in due course commission a forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), as set out by the Charter for Budget Responsibility. The OBR will incorporate the impact of new policy in their next economic and fiscal forecast, including measures that have been announced since the last forecast event. answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 9863 question first answered 06/06/2022 09:05:14 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1417647

registered interest
date	28/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South East (a) of 8 December 2021 on coronavirus loan fraud and (b) of 19 December 2021 on his visit to California; and for what reason he has not provided a timely response to that correspondence.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	113715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>The Member’s letter of 8 December was passed to BEIS to reply and the response was issued on 22 December.</p><p> </p><p>I responded to the Member’s letter of 19 December on 31 January.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/02/2022 09:21:55 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1416821

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HMRC plans to spend for the purposes of recovering public money lost to fraud and economic crime through covid-19 support schemes.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	112518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic, the Government’s number one priority has been to protect jobs and livelihoods whilst also supporting businesses and public services across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The overwhelming majority of people that claimed Covid-19 support did so legitimately. HMRC is also aware that mistakes can happen, which is why HMRC is supporting people who made a mistake to correct it. Those who keep money claimed from any of the Covid-19 support schemes despite knowing they were not entitled to it face having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest, and potentially criminal prosecution in the most serious of cases.</p><p> </p><p>As published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21, over 1,300 Full Time Equivalent staff were deployed onto the COVID schemes during 2020-21. The full report can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government has since invested over £100 million in a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce of over 1,200 Full Time Equivalent of HMRC staff to combat fraud and error within the HMRC Covid-19 schemes, one of the largest and quickest responses to a fraud risk by HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>The taskforce is funded for two years up to the year 2022-23 and will enable HMRC to increase their one-to-one checks to 30,000. The Taskforce is expected to recover between £800 million to £1 billion in overpayments.</p><p> </p><p>Up to November 2021, HMRC issued over 74,000 letters asking claimants to check their claims and self-correct if they had got it wrong, and opened over 26,000 one-to-one checks where there was a risk that the grant had been overclaimed. HMRC’s 2020-21 compliance results for the Covid-19 schemes amounted to over £830 million, achieved by preventing losses by pre-payment activity and recovering overclaimed grants.</p><p> </p><p>Taskforce performance for the year 2021-22 will be published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021-22.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 112519 112520 question first answered 02/02/2022 18:24:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1416822

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many ongoing investigations are underway at HMRC to recover public money lost to fraud and economic crime through the emergency covid-19 schemes as of 26 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	112519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic, the Government’s number one priority has been to protect jobs and livelihoods whilst also supporting businesses and public services across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The overwhelming majority of people that claimed Covid-19 support did so legitimately. HMRC is also aware that mistakes can happen, which is why HMRC is supporting people who made a mistake to correct it. Those who keep money claimed from any of the Covid-19 support schemes despite knowing they were not entitled to it face having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest, and potentially criminal prosecution in the most serious of cases.</p><p> </p><p>As published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21, over 1,300 Full Time Equivalent staff were deployed onto the COVID schemes during 2020-21. The full report can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government has since invested over £100 million in a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce of over 1,200 Full Time Equivalent of HMRC staff to combat fraud and error within the HMRC Covid-19 schemes, one of the largest and quickest responses to a fraud risk by HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>The taskforce is funded for two years up to the year 2022-23 and will enable HMRC to increase their one-to-one checks to 30,000. The Taskforce is expected to recover between £800 million to £1 billion in overpayments.</p><p> </p><p>Up to November 2021, HMRC issued over 74,000 letters asking claimants to check their claims and self-correct if they had got it wrong, and opened over 26,000 one-to-one checks where there was a risk that the grant had been overclaimed. HMRC’s 2020-21 compliance results for the Covid-19 schemes amounted to over £830 million, achieved by preventing losses by pre-payment activity and recovering overclaimed grants.</p><p> </p><p>Taskforce performance for the year 2021-22 will be published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021-22.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 112518 112520 question first answered 02/02/2022 18:24:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1416823

registered interest
date	26/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many members of staff at HMRC are working full-time on the recovery of public money lost to fraud and economic crime through the emergency covid-19 schemes as of 26 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	112520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic, the Government’s number one priority has been to protect jobs and livelihoods whilst also supporting businesses and public services across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The overwhelming majority of people that claimed Covid-19 support did so legitimately. HMRC is also aware that mistakes can happen, which is why HMRC is supporting people who made a mistake to correct it. Those who keep money claimed from any of the Covid-19 support schemes despite knowing they were not entitled to it face having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest, and potentially criminal prosecution in the most serious of cases.</p><p> </p><p>As published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21, over 1,300 Full Time Equivalent staff were deployed onto the COVID schemes during 2020-21. The full report can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government has since invested over £100 million in a Taxpayer Protection Taskforce of over 1,200 Full Time Equivalent of HMRC staff to combat fraud and error within the HMRC Covid-19 schemes, one of the largest and quickest responses to a fraud risk by HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>The taskforce is funded for two years up to the year 2022-23 and will enable HMRC to increase their one-to-one checks to 30,000. The Taskforce is expected to recover between £800 million to £1 billion in overpayments.</p><p> </p><p>Up to November 2021, HMRC issued over 74,000 letters asking claimants to check their claims and self-correct if they had got it wrong, and opened over 26,000 one-to-one checks where there was a risk that the grant had been overclaimed. HMRC’s 2020-21 compliance results for the Covid-19 schemes amounted to over £830 million, achieved by preventing losses by pre-payment activity and recovering overclaimed grants.</p><p> </p><p>Taskforce performance for the year 2021-22 will be published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021-22.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 112518 112519 question first answered 02/02/2022 18:24:07 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1416356

registered interest
date	25/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Economic Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department’s budget has been for tackling fraud, scams and economic crime in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	111532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>HM Treasury takes a flexible and dynamic approach to resourcing to meet Government priorities. We have teams delivering priority work including economic crime reform. However, we do not routinely record the number of full time equivalent civil servants who work on individual policy initiatives.</p><p> </p><p>Most of the responsibility for tackling fraud and economic crime is led by the Departments tasked with delivering Government policy. Investigations and enforcement activities are also undertaken by regulatory or enforcement agencies, including the Financial Conduct Authority and National Crime Agency respectively. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), part of HM Treasury, ensures financial sanctions are properly understood and enforced and investigates all reported suspected breaches.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 111536 question first answered 01/02/2022 17:47:12 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1416358

registered interest
date	25/01/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Economic Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations into fraud, scams and economic crime his Department has conducted in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	111534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>HM Treasury is a policy-making department and does not undertake investigations, except for the work of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI).</p><p> </p><p>As the competent authority for the implementation of financial sanctions in the UK, OFSI supports efforts to tackle economic crime by ensuring that financial sanctions are properly understood and enforced.</p><p> </p><p>OFSI investigates all reported suspected breaches of financial sanctions. Its Annual Review publications are available on GOV.UK and provide further information about OFSI’s work.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 01/02/2022 17:49:49 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden