Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 76469
National Investigation Service: Finance
Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025
Named DayQuestion
Mike Martin
Liberal Democrat — Tunbridge Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department took to undertake due diligence in relation to the National Investigation Service before its funding for that body to enhance counter-fraud work was announced in the Spring St
Answer
Blair McDougallAt the time of the Spring Statement 2022 the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had commissioned and managed NATIS to undertake potentially fraudulent covid loan investigations.Through the Machinery of Government changes acco...
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