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1694472

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many domestic overnight visits were undertaken by Ministers in his 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	17515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes on GOV.UK details of the cost of overseas Ministerial travel, including costs of travel, and on other costs (visas, accommodation, meals).</p><p>But as has been the case under successive administrations, the Government does not publish granular detail on Ministers’ travel at home or abroad.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/03/2024 17:36:01 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1694473

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, 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	17516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes on GOV.UK details of the cost of overseas Ministerial travel, including costs of travel, and on other costs (vias, accommodation, meals).</p><p>But as has been the case under successive administrations, the Government does not publish granular detail on Ministers’ travel at home or abroad.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 12/03/2024 15:28:28 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1694474

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many domestic overnight visits were undertaken by Ministers in her 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	17517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The government publishes details of the costs of overseas ministerial travel, including costs of travel and other costs (visas, accommodation and meals) on GOV.UK.</p><p>But as has been the case under successive administrations, the government does not publish granular detail on Ministers’ travel at home or abroad.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 12/03/2024 17:31:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1694475

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, 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	17518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes on GOV.UK details of the cost of overseas Ministerial travel, including costs of travel, and on other costs (visas, accommodation, meals).</p><p> </p><p>But as has been the case under successive administrations, the Government does not publish granular detail on Ministers’ travel at home or abroad.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 12/03/2024 10:32:33 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
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

1693875

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Fraud and Maladministration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is proud of its record in proactively seeking to find and prevent more fraud in the system. As part of wider cross-government counter fraud investment, the government established the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year, the PSFA delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The PSFA produces a Fraud Landscape Report (<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>). This provides data on fraud and error detection, loss and recoveries in central government, outside of the tax and welfare system and includes the Cabinet Office. The 2020/21 Report was published in March 2023. To note it outlines all figures rounded to the nearest £0.1m.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In 2022-23, as published in the department’s Annual Reports and Accounts, the Cabinet Office detected error of £3.48m, of which £3.43m was recovered in year and detected fraud of £60k of which none has been recovered to date. Efforts to recover the detected fraud are continuing at this time. The Cabinet Office does not hold specific data on fraud for previous years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office does not recognise a loss arising from error or fraud until efforts to recover the funds have been explored. This means that write-offs of error and fraud usually occur in the years after the original problem arose.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Losses recognised and written off by the Cabinet Office for the last three years are:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2022/23 - £4,800</p><p>2021/22 - £327,400</p><p>2020/21 - £703,300</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 11/03/2024 17:20:39 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693877

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Fraud and Maladministration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her Department and predecessor Department in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17123
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 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landsca pe-annual-report-2022.) 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>DCMS does not annually estimate the level of fraud and error across all its expenditure, instead focusing assurance and measurement activity on higher risk and higher value areas.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 11/03/2024 13:50:28 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693881

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Fraud and Maladministration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her (a) her Department and (b) the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government proactively investigates and prevents 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> </p><p>Due to the Machinery of Government changes, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has not yet produced fraud and error estimates but this will be published in the 23/24 annual report and accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The latest Government figures for the former department BEIS can be found in the BEIS Annual Report and Accounts (2022/2023).</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 11/03/2024 12:42:03 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
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

1693251

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what reports and guidance his Department and 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	16721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 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. Examples include the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>), Strengthening Ethics and Integrity in Central Government (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-ethics-and-integrity-in-central-government" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-ethics-and-integrity-in-central-government</a>) and policy papers such as the Disability Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-action-plan</a>).</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2024 19:36:41 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden