Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many requests were made to Companies House to (a) remove and (b) change director details in each year between 2020 and 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
No figure for requests to remove or change director details is currently available.
Companies House does hold data on removals of officer addresses. To the year ending 4 March 2025, Companies House removed 66,900 officer addresses.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason the launch of the service to register Companies House authorised agents has been delayed.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Companies House is transforming its technology infrastructure in order to implement measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.
The decision was taken to postpone the full launch for a short period to allow time to address the issues and ensure the service will continue to operate to a high standard for customers.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many requests were made by Companies House to query information (a) sent for acceptance to and (b) already published on the register using the new enforcement powers introduced in March 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Since 4 March 2024 Companies House has been using its new powers to challenge, question and reject documents and to make enquiries about documents that have already been registered.
No figure for filings that have been queried prior to before registration is available.
To the year ending 4 March 2025, Companies House removed:
Personal information was redacted from 49,800 incorporation documents. A further have been removed from the register. These actions have affected 100,400 companies in total.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many (a) high-end, (b) trade-based and (c) cash-based money laundering incidents were identified by Companies House in each year between 2020 and 2024.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Companies House does not hold this information. Prior to March 2024, Companies House had limited powers to analyse and share information. Whilst the investigation of suspected money laundering is not within its remit, where suspicious patterns of behaviour are identified that reflect the typology of money laundering, Companies House will share this information with relevant law enforcement partners, using data sharing powers which came into force in March 2024.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Companies House has key performance indicators to measure the quality of information on the registry.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Work is underway to develop key performance indicators and establish baselines to measure the quality of information on the Companies House register. The need for this work has been triggered by the implementation of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA).
The key performance indicators will include assessments of compliance levels, adherence to data standards and measurement of the value of the information on the Register.
Companies House are also investigating ways to estimate false, misleading and inaccurate information in line with the Registrar’s objectives under ECCTA. This will be based on the threats outlined in the Strategic Intelligence Assessment.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has asked HS2 Limited to make an assessment of the potential impact of the provision of funding for a railway station at East Birmingham on the regeneration of that area.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
HS2 Ltd has defined scope to deliver two HS2 stations in the West Midlands: Birmingham Curzon Street and Interchange. These stations will have a transformative economic impact on the wider city, including East Birmingham. There are no plans for an additional HS2 station in East Birmingham.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many pensioners are in receipt of the State Pension in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull; and what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the increase to the State Pension in the next financial year.
Answered by Torsten Bell - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
The number of pensioners in receipt of the State Pension in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull are provided in the following tables. These figures are for the quarter ending August 2024 and are available at DWP Stat-Xplore.
(a) (i) - Birmingham
Local Authority Ward | State Pension Caseload |
Acocks Green | 2,848 |
Allens Cross | 1,590 |
Alum Rock | 1,809 |
Aston | 1,890 |
Balsall Heath West | 1,083 |
Bartley Green | 3,565 |
Billesley | 3,045 |
Birchfield | 1,027 |
Bordesley and Highgate | 671 |
Bordesley Green | 875 |
Bournbrook and Selly Park | 1,251 |
Bournville and Cotteridge | 3,502 |
Brandwood and King's Heath | 2,850 |
Bromford and Hodge Hill | 2,462 |
Castle Vale | 1,449 |
Druids Heath and Monyhull | 1,661 |
Edgbaston | 2,509 |
Erdington | 3,155 |
Frankley Great Park | 1,825 |
Garretts Green | 1,208 |
Glebe Farm and Tile Cross | 2,689 |
Gravelly Hill | 1,052 |
Hall Green North | 2,806 |
Hall Green South | 1,830 |
Handsworth | 1,081 |
Handsworth Wood | 2,716 |
Harborne | 3,363 |
Heartlands | 888 |
Highter's Heath | 1,663 |
Holyhead | 956 |
King's Norton North | 2,110 |
King's Norton South | 1,609 |
Kingstanding | 2,714 |
Ladywood | 1,227 |
Longbridge and West Heath | 3,498 |
Lozells | 703 |
Moseley | 3,189 |
Nechells | 857 |
Newtown | 755 |
North Edgbaston | 2,030 |
Northfield | 1,970 |
Oscott | 2,948 |
Perry Barr | 2,948 |
Perry Common | 1,714 |
Pype Hayes | 1,546 |
Quinton | 3,392 |
Rubery and Rednal | 1,878 |
Shard End | 1,729 |
Sheldon | 3,353 |
Small Heath | 1,673 |
Soho and Jewellery Quarter | 1,574 |
South Yardley | 1,393 |
Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East | 1,929 |
Sparkhill | 1,783 |
Stirchley | 1,271 |
Stockland Green | 2,553 |
Sutton Four Oaks | 2,336 |
Sutton Mere Green | 2,303 |
Sutton Reddicap | 1,743 |
Sutton Roughley | 2,354 |
Sutton Trinity | 1,982 |
Sutton Vesey | 4,317 |
Sutton Walmley and Minworth | 3,881 |
Sutton Wylde Green | 2,441 |
Tyseley and Hay Mills | 1,070 |
Ward End | 964 |
Weoley and Selly Oak | 3,202 |
Yardley East | 1,751 |
Yardley West and Stechford | 1,290 |
(a) (ii) - Solihull
Local Authority Ward | State Pension Caseload |
Bickenhill | 2,540 |
Blythe | 2,761 |
Castle Bromwich | 2,725 |
Chelmsley Wood | 1,988 |
Dorridge and Hockley Heath | 2,692 |
Elmdon | 2,464 |
Kingshurst and Fordbridge | 1,784 |
Knowle | 3,167 |
Lyndon | 2,434 |
Meriden | 3,121 |
Olton | 2,772 |
Shirley East | 2,371 |
Shirley South | 2,859 |
Shirley West | 2,687 |
Silhill | 2,789 |
Smith's Wood | 1,868 |
St Alphege | 3,214 |
(b) (i) - Birmingham
Parliamentary Constituency | State Pension Caseload |
Birmingham Edgbaston | 14,853 |
Birmingham Erdington | 16,063 |
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley | 13,148 |
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North | 14,525 |
Birmingham Ladywood | 8,847 |
Birmingham Northfield | 16,997 |
Birmingham Perry Barr | 12,384 |
Birmingham Selly Oak | 14,322 |
Birmingham Yardley | 13,381 |
Sutton Coldfield | 21,356 |
(b) (ii) - Solihull
Parliamentary Constituency | State Pension Caseload |
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North | 14,525 |
Meriden and Solihull East | 20,545 |
Solihull West and Shirley | 19,100 |
In 2025/26, it is estimated the total State Pension expenditure will increase by around £9bn (in nominal terms). This estimation is available in the latest Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables published at Autumn Budget 2024. Source: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024 - GOV.UK
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the number of people who will be affected by the increase in the national minimum wage in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull broken; and what the average uplift to annual wages will be for people earning the minimum wage.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The recently published Impact Assessment estimates the number of workers who will be affected by the increases in the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage, broken down by region and country. More granular estimates by local authority and parliamentary constituency are subject to greater data reliability issues due to survey response rates.
A full-time worker earning the National Living Wage will see their gross annual earnings rise by £1,400 per year. A full-time worker earning the 18-20 National Minimum Wage will see their gross annual earnings rise by £2,500 per year.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date bids for the next wave of City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement funding should be submitted to her Department.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
At October Budget, the Government confirmed funding for the current City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement programme in 2025-26, including a £200m uplift. Further funding beyond 2025-26 is being considered as part of the multi-year Spending Review, which is expected to conclude in late Spring.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the planned funding allocations for Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB are in each year for which figures are available.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Funding allocations for the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) for 2025/26 were recently published online by NHS England alongside 2025/26 NHS Planning Guidance. The following table shows the funding allocations for the Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB for 2025/26:
Allocation | 2025/26 amount |
ICB core programme | £3,124,548,000 |
ICB delegated specialised services | £491,587,000 |
ICB primary medical care | £312,120,000 |
ICB pharmacy, ophthalmic, and dental services | £151,387,000 |
ICB running cost allowance | £21,741,000 |
Funding beyond 2025/26 will be determined following Phase 2 of the Spending Review, which will conclude later this year.