Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the value of Eat to Help Out funds that were claimed fraudulently.

HMRC identifies claims for compliance checks where the amount of the claim is out of step with other information. The risk that a claim is incorrect may be due to either an honest mistake or fraud, and the reason cannot be established until the check is concluded.

Estimates for the proportion of error and fraud were published in November 2021, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-error-and-fraud-in-the-covid-19-schemes/measuring-error-and-fraud-in-the-covid-19-support-schemes-methodology-and-approach.