Oral QuestionDepartment for Business and Trade

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 4 December 2025Answered: 11 December 2025

Asked by

Michael Payne

LabourGedling

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Blair McDougall)

I thank Boutique Flowers for everything that it contributes to my hon. Friend’s local community. That sort of fraud is galling when someone is trying to keep a local business going, and colleagues in the Home Office and my Department are working on a new expanded fraud strategy to be published early next year. I will make sure that the experience of his constituents is fed in to that strategy.