I want to write to Abena Oppong-Asare
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of loans made under the Bounce Back Loan Scheme to directors that have subsequently been disqualified or made subject to bankruptcy undertakings as a result of bounce-back loan misuse; and what the value of those loans is.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies that received Bounce Back loans were set up after March 2020.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of coronavirus bounce back loans from each lender have been identified as fraudulent.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of companies that received Coronavirus Bounce Back Loans were issued to companies that had been created by company formation agents.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation and supervision of the British Business Bank.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on which dates the covid-19 loan scheme counter-fraud strategy board has met.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Oral Evidence taken by the Treasury Select Committee on 27 April 2022 on HM Treasury’s role in combating fraud, for what reason his Department does not have a global target for reducing public sector fraud across Government.
Abena Oppong-Asare: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newbury (Laura Farris). I welcome the opportunity to speak about transport issues today, as I am regularly contacted by constituents who are raising issues ranging from poor public transport links to the lack of availability of electric vehicle charging points. I will be covering a couple of those issues today, but I want to start with some good...
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the managing public money guidance on fraud was last updated.
Abena Oppong-Asare: Under this Conservative Government, people’s savings have declined by record levels. Data from the Office for Budget Responsibility shows that the amount of income households are able to save is set to fall by more than £1,000. This Tory cost of living crisis is pushing people into debt, yet one Government Minister said yesterday that, if people are struggling, they should simply work more...
Abena Oppong-Asare: Under this Conservative Government, people’s savings have declined by record levels. Data from the Office for Budget Responsibility shows that the amount of income households are able to save is set to fall by more than £1,000. This Tory cost of living crisis is pushing people into debt, yet one Government Minister said yesterday that, if people are struggling, they should simply work more...
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many allegations of fraud in the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from whistleblowers HMRC has (a) received, (b) investigated and (c) concluded were fraudulent as of 12 May 2022.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the value of Eat to Help Out funds that were claimed fraudulently.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of the Government's £100 million investment in the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce, announced in November 2021, has been used for (a) existing and (b) new HMRC staff.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff have been (a) reassigned from other teams in HMRC into the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce and (b) hired by HMRC to replace those who have been reassigned.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the value of loans issued through the Bounce Back Loan Scheme at risk of being used to fund terrorist organisations.
Abena Oppong-Asare: I am really concerned that the Minister does not understand the scale of the issue. Many of my constituents have been saving for their holidays for years but now risk losing them altogether due to unacceptable delays of well beyond 10 weeks. They are stuck in limbo, unable to get any updates on what is happening with their applications. I am told that constituents’ emails have gone...
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions (a) he or (b) other Ministers in his Department have had with HMRC about the advice issued to employers to add the message, 1.25 per cent uplift in NICs funds NHS, health & social care, to payslips in relation to the increase in national insurance.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he took to avoid a conflict of interests when considering changes to tax rules for non-domiciled residents.
Abena Oppong-Asare: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he approved the HMRC guidance, Prepare for the Health and Social Care Levy, issued on 31 January 2022 and last updated on 7 February 2022.