Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 76469

National Investigation Service: Finance

Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Mike Martin

Liberal DemocratTunbridge 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 McDougall
At 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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