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1488479

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date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether ministerial responsibilities in his Department have changed following the recent appointment of new ministers.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	34875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>All ministerial responsibilities are published on gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 19/07/2022 07:08:42 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1488472

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date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxpayer Protection Taskforce: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full-time equivalent staff the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce employed as of 12 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	34872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>At Spring Budget 2021 the Government announced a £100 million investment into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce. The taskforce was established to extend HMRC’s work to tackle fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that they administered (Self Employment Income Support Scheme, Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and Eat Out to Help Out). The taskforce does not deliver compliance across schemes administered outside HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone who keeps grant money despite knowing they were not entitled to it, faces having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest and potentially criminal prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC identifies claims for compliance checks where the amount of the claim is out of step with other information. The risk that the claim is incorrect may be due to either an honest mistake or fraud, therefore, the value of recovered grants does not distinguish between error and fraud.</p><p> </p><p>As of July 2022, the taskforce was made up of 1,155 full-time equivalent staff (FTE). The FTE will vary across the year. The resource commitment is proportionate to the number of high-risk claims made and the risks posed by error and fraud in the HMRC administered schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The taskforce commenced activity from April 2021 and will build on the £536 million already recovered in 2020-21. Taskforce performance for 2021-22 is covered in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021-22, which are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022</a>. This is in addition to the amounts that HMRC prevented from being paid out on incorrect claims.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 34874 question first answered 19/07/2022 07:18:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1488473

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
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, whether he has met the (a) Taxpayer Protection Taskforce or (b) National Crime Agency to discuss fraud in the covid-19 support schemes since his appointment as Chancellor.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	34873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials regularly engage with the National Crime Agency and Taxpayer Protection Taskforce to discuss shared policy interests, such as the response to fraud.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has invested over £100 million in the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce to combat fraud on the HMRC Covid-19 schemes, one of the largest and quickest responses to a fraud risk by HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>In 2021-22 the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce prevented more than £350 million from being lost through error and fraud in the COVID-19 financial support schemes. Overall, since the start of the schemes, the amount of money either recovered or blocked from being paid out totals more than £1.2 billion, with compliance activity still ongoing.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/07/2022 15:04:22 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1488478

registered interest
date	12/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value of fraudulent loans and grants recovered by the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce is since its inception.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	34874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>At Spring Budget 2021 the Government announced a £100 million investment into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce. The taskforce was established to extend HMRC’s work to tackle fraud and error in the COVID support schemes that they administered (Self Employment Income Support Scheme, Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, and Eat Out to Help Out). The taskforce does not deliver compliance across schemes administered outside HMRC.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone who keeps grant money despite knowing they were not entitled to it, faces having to repay up to double the amount they received, plus interest and potentially criminal prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC identifies claims for compliance checks where the amount of the claim is out of step with other information. The risk that the claim is incorrect may be due to either an honest mistake or fraud, therefore, the value of recovered grants does not distinguish between error and fraud.</p><p> </p><p>As of July 2022, the taskforce was made up of 1,155 full-time equivalent staff (FTE). The FTE will vary across the year. The resource commitment is proportionate to the number of high-risk claims made and the risks posed by error and fraud in the HMRC administered schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The taskforce commenced activity from April 2021 and will build on the £536 million already recovered in 2020-21. Taskforce performance for 2021-22 is covered in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021-22, which are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hmrc-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022</a>. This is in addition to the amounts that HMRC prevented from being paid out on incorrect claims.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 34872 question first answered 19/07/2022 07:18:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden