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1547633

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date	02/12/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment he has made of employers complying with their obligation to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people in the (a) public and (b) private sectors.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The most recent assessment was set out in the Government’s response to the Health is Everyone's Business consultation. It identified a lack of awareness and understanding of rights and responsibilities under the Equality Act among both employers and employees, in particular around providing reasonable adjustments. A separate assessment was not made for the public and private sectors. The measures the Government is taking forward provide greater clarity around employer and employee rights and responsibilities and address the need for employers to have access to clear and compelling information and advice that is easy to understand, trustworthy and accessible.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/12/2022 17:19:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547636

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
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	Recovery Loan Scheme: 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 estimate he has made of the level of potential fraud in Coronavirus loan support schemes; and if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of anti-fraud safeguards that were in place.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The latest estimates of potential fraud and error loss in the Government’s Covid-19 loan schemes can be found in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts 2021-2022, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beis-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p> </p><p>For the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), from the outset lenders were required to make and maintain appropriate anti-money laundering and know-your-customer checks for all new customer applicants. Following launch, the British Business Bank (BBB) implemented a series of additional processes to support lenders’ fraud prevention efforts. This included the duplicate application check and the implementation of fraud risk assessment procedures and the Government Counter Fraud Function’s fraud analytics programme.</p><p> </p><p>Lenders report that they prevented £2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent applications during the life of the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 07/12/2022 17:04:42 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547639

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
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	Recovery Loan Scheme
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 plans the Government has to provide further transparency over which companies received Coronavirus support loans; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>Arguments regarding the possible disclosure of individual details Bounce Back Loan scheme borrowers have now been heard at First Tier Tribunal.</p><p> </p><p>The Tribunal’s decision on this issue is expected in due course and it would be inappropriate to comment further until that decision is received.</p><p> </p><p>Where required under the EU State aid rules, information about recipients of finance under the Covid-19 loan guarantee schemes has been published on the European Commission’s State Aid Transparency Public Search database, available here: <a href="https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/competition/transparency/public?lang=en" target="_blank">https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/competition/transparency/public?lang=en</a>. Similarly, some information has been reported on the UK Government’s transparency database where required under the UK’s domestic subsidy control regime: <a href="https://searchforuksubsidies.beis.gov.uk/" target="_blank">ttps://searchforuksubsidies.beis.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 07/12/2022 17:05:03 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547640

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
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	Recovery Loan Scheme: 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 plans the Government has to recover coronavirus support loans that were fraudulently obtained; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to bearing down on fraud in the Covid-19 loan schemes and we are working with lenders, law enforcement, and partners to recover fraudulently obtained loans.</p><p> </p><p>At the Spring Statement 2022, my Rt. Hon Friend the then Chancellor of the Exchequer announced almost £50 million of additional funding for counter-fraud work, of which over half related to Bounce Back Loans.</p><p> </p><p>As of October 2022, Insolvency Service action on Covid-19 support scheme fraud has resulted in 391 director disqualifications and 119 bankruptcy restrictions, the majority relating to BBLS fraud. They have also achieved 2 criminal prosecutions. The National Investigation Service (NATIS) have a total recoveries target of £6 million this financial year and have recovered £5.8 million to date.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted the estimate of suspected fraud and error loss has been revised downward between the Department’s Annual Reports and Accounts 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, now with a realised lifetime fraud and error loss estimate of 4.24%.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 07/12/2022 17:05:20 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547642

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Economic Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to increase funding for organisations tackling economic crime including (a) fraud, (b) money laundering and (c) corruption.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The total SR21 settlement and the Economic Crime Levy represent an overall package of circa £400 million to tackle economic crime over the next three years, including support for the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and law enforcement.</p><p>This investment allows us to continue our delivery of tackling Economic Crime, for example through the Suspicious Activity Reporting Reform programme. For fraud, we are investing in the law enforcement response, working with industry to remove the vulnerabilities that fraudsters exploit online, and replacing the current Action Fraud system with a new Fraud and Cyber Reporting and Analysis Service. Funding decisions from 2023-24 onwards remain subject to Departmental and HMT Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy allocations.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 07/12/2022 16:19:38 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547643

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has to strengthen counter-fraud measures for public procurement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to rooting out fraud and corruption in public procurement. All contracting authorities must act and be seen to act with integrity.</p><p>We have worked closely with the Serious Fraud Office, the Competition and Markets Authority and other experts to strengthen the rules around supplier exclusion through measures in the Procurement Bill and ensure that suppliers with a track record of fraud or corruption will be excluded from procurements, and cannot be awarded public contracts unless they can demonstrate that the circumstances giving rise to the fraud or corruption are not likely to occur again.</p><p>In addition, the Government has established the Public Sector Fraud Authority as part of a range of measures to tackle waste and inefficiency across the public sector. The Public Sector Fraud Authority is a new team at the heart of Government which works with departments and public bodies to understand and reduce the impact of fraud.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 08/12/2022 12:43:32 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547644

registered interest
date	02/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Ninth Report of Session 2021-22 of the Public Accounts Committee entitled Fraud and Error, HC 253, published on 30 June 2021, if he will take steps to implement the recommendation on introducing a presumption that the business beneficiaries of Government support schemes will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>In the Government Response to the Ninth Report of Session 2021-22 of the Public Accounts Committee entitled Fraud and Error, the Government did not agree with the Public Account Committee’s recommendation to introduce a presumption that the business beneficiaries of Government support schemes should be published.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has a duty to protect the personal data and privacy of the smallest businesses in the UK, therefore the Government must exercise discretion on transparency requirements in the case of some business beneficiaries. Details of facilities made available under the COVID-19 loan schemes have been published where required.</p><p> </p><p>We have always been clear that fraud is unacceptable. The Government is taking action against those who have de-frauded the system by working closely with law enforcement, counter-fraud agencies and commercial lenders. The lack of publication has no bearing on the ability of the National Auditing Office to audit support schemes.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 07/12/2022 11:37:44 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1547420

registered interest
date	01/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of agreeing a UN tax convention on reform of global tax rules.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	101049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government believes that the UN has an important role to play in promoting greater participation within the international tax system and promoting better implementation of existing tax rules and standards across the world. The UK actively engages with the UN’s work on tax policy and provides expertise to the work of the various subcommittees on tax.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also cares deeply about ensuring that mechanisms for formulating and implementing international tax rules and standards are effective as well as inclusive. Therefore, the UK believes that the OECD, including the Inclusive Framework (with over 130 members) and the Global Forum (with over 160 members) is best-placed to deliver consensus-based reform to international tax rules. This comes as a result of the strong expertise that sits within the OECD and the steps taken in recent years to become ever more inclusive of the needs of developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/12/2022 13:27:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1546782

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has taken recent steps with the (a) Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (b) National Grid to ensure that families with disabled children who rely on life-saving equipment have a guaranteed electricity supply.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	99963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>While there have been no specific discussions with the National Grid, we are working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to understand the likelihood of any power outages. Care providers and equipment suppliers support those with long term conditions including families with disabled children to safely use medical equipment at home and in cases where the equipment is disrupted. In a power outage scenario, the Priority Services Register is maintained by electricity network operators to target support to the most vulnerable customers.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/12/2022 11:55:30 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 39743 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1546783

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Disability: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of integrated care strategies for meeting the health needs of disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	99964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department published guidance on the preparation of integrated care strategies in July 2022. This states that integrated care partnerships should consider how the needs and health and wellbeing outcomes of babies, children, young people and their families can be met and improved. We expect that this would include addressing the needs of disabled children.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/12/2022 10:50:36 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden