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Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
UK Export Finance (UKEF)

May. 08 2024

Source Page: Ship outfitter lands £1 million growth funding with UK Export Finance support
Document: Ship outfitter lands £1 million growth funding with UK Export Finance support (webpage)

Found: Lloyds Bank provided the facility, which is supported by UKEF and allows Trimline to target new business

Select Committee
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
 MUL0007 - International relations within the multilateral system

Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024

Inquiry: International relations within the multilateral system
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: The biopharmaceutical industry is global in its nature; operating around the world to provide people

Written Question
Coronavirus: Fraud
Wednesday 6th December 2023

Asked by: Neale Hanvey (Alba Party - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of how much (a) was lost from the public purse due to fraud during the covid-19 pandemic, (b) of that fraud has been recovered and (c) is irrecoverable.

Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

During the pandemic, the Government delivered an unprecedented package of economic support to preserve livelihoods and save businesses across the whole United Kingdom.

The Government is committed to transparency in its efforts to tackle fraud against the public sector. The UK is one of the few countries to publish data on fraud and error within the public sector in the Fraud Landscape Report. The Government will continue to be transparent and prioritise its efforts in detecting, preventing and recovering fraud associated with the pandemic.

The Fraud Landscape Report showed that in 2020/21, across government and outside of tax and welfare (so, excluding COVID-19 expenditure in HMRC and DWP), departments reported £88m of recovered fraud and error related to COVID-19.

Since 2021, we have invested in taking action on fraud, to bolster the prevention and recovery of fraud losses in welfare, tax and COVID Business Loans, and prosecute those who have defrauded the public purse - this included the establishment of the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA).

Fraud is a hidden crime and the Government’s focus remains on detecting and recovering as much of it as is possible. That is done by deploying cutting edge tools supported by world leading expertise to find and recover as much fraud as possible.

Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
UK Health Security Agency

Apr. 30 2024

Source Page: A commercial strategy for UK Health Security Agency
Document: (PDF)

Found: A commercial strategy for UK Health Security Agency

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Business and Trade

Apr. 17 2024

Source Page: Government ramps up work to secure supplies of medicines and smartphone chips
Document: Government ramps up work to secure supplies of medicines and smartphone chips (webpage)

Found: – ensuring businesses have a central voice in shaping government’s work to build supply chain resilience

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Apr. 08 2024

Source Page: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games contributed £1.2 billion to UK economy
Document: Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games contributed £1.2 billion to UK economy (webpage)

Found: The positive impact of the UK hosting major sporting events has been outlined in a new report which shows

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Business and Trade

Jan. 17 2024

Source Page: UK takes action to boost supply chain resilience for critical goods and back businesses
Document: UK takes action to boost supply chain resilience for critical goods and back businesses (webpage)

Found: pandemic and war in Ukraine and understand how the UK can secure the goods we need in future.

Westminster Hall
Global Health Agencies and Vaccine-Preventable Deaths - Thu 09 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) The success of the mRNA vaccine during the covid-19 pandemic has led to the development of a number of - Speech Link
2: Chris Law (SNP - Dundee West) country of the world.In the covid pandemic, the vaccination programme was crucial in reducing deaths - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)

Jan. 05 2024

Source Page: Business rates relief to retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in Scotland: FOI release
Document: 202300339424 - FOI Documents Doc 1_2_5_8_13 (PDF)

Found: Business rates relief to retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in Scotland: FOI release

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
International Long Covid Awareness Day - Wed 13 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) The final item of business is a members’ business debate on motion S6M-12371, in the name of Sandesh - Speech Link
2: Kidd, Bill (SNP - Glasgow Anniesland) make more of an effort to look at the issue as a continuation of the pandemic. - Speech Link
3: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) workers, teachers and the police—on whom we relied during the Covid pandemic. - Speech Link
4: Wishart, Beatrice (LD - Shetland Islands) It is disappointing, therefore, that it has taken Opposition time, in a members’ business debate, to - Speech Link
5: Lumsden, Douglas (Con - North East Scotland) later, for the estimated 187,000 people in Scotland who are living with long Covid, the pandemic has - Speech Link