Written Question·Treasury·UIN 22789

Fraud: Coronavirus

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 17 January 2025

Question

Phil Brickell

LabourBolton West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs staff time and resource was dedicated to recovering funds from covid-19 (a) business relief and (b) procurement-related fraud in the latest period for which data is available.

Answer

James Murray
HMRC remain committed to COVID-19 scheme compliance activity and will continue to prioritise and pursue the most serious cases of abuse. Part (a):The main COVID-19 business support schemes that were administered by HMRC were the Coronavirus Job Retention ...

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