Liam Byrne MP: written questions
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Counter-terrorism and Money LaunderingTreasuryTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36046More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if her Department will publish its response to its consultation on Reforming anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing supervision, published on 30 June 2023.
Answer: The Treasury’s consultation on reforming the UK’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing supervisory regime closed in September 2023. The Department is continuing to analyse responses to this consultation and remains committed to announcing...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial ServicesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will hold a summit of international financial centres.
Answer: Tackling corruption and illicit finance is a central priority of the Foreign Secretary to support the Government's Plan for Change by supporting UK growth and national security, including safer streets. The Foreign Secretary's Campaign Against Illicit Fin...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies HouseDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36044More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies House: StandardsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36043More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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 Trans...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies: RegistrationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36042More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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 ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies HouseDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36041More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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 behaviou...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCompanies HouseDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36040More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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 is...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34783More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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, ...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRailway Stations: BirminghamDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34782More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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 additio...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMinimum Wage: Birmingham and SolihullDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34781More
Question: 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 an
Answer: 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 parliam...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordState Retirement Pensions: Birmingham and SolihullDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34780More
Question: 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
Answer: 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 ...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBreakfast Clubs: West MidlandsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by how much funding allocations for breakfast clubs in schools will increase in each (a) local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Solihull in each year for which data is ava
Answer: The government is committed to introducing free breakfast clubs in every state-funded school with primary-aged pupils. The Autumn Budget 2024 confirmed over £30 million of funding for breakfast clubs for the 2025/26 financial year. This funding will enabl...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Rented Housing: Birmingham and SolihullMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26422More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what annual forecast she has made of the number of new social homes to be built in Birmingham and Solihull.
Answer: The government is committed to delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.We will set out details of new investment to succeed the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme at the Spending Review.This new investment wi...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government Finance: Birmingham and SolihullMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the planned funding allocations for (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) Solihull Borough Council are in each year for which figures are available.
Answer: As part of the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement on 18 December 2024 the government published the latest Core Spending Power figures which are available here.Included within the tables are figures for allocations dating back to 2015. Due to ...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Birmingham and Solihull: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26420More
Question: 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.
Answer: 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...
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNurseries and Schools: West MidlandsDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out planned funding allocations for (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools and (c) secondary schools in Birmingham and Solihull broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency
Answer: Core funding allocations for nurseries, primary schools and secondary schools are distributed through the dedicated schools grant (DSG).Annual DSG allocations are published at local authority level. Allocations are not available by constituency, since loc...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Wealth FundTreasuryTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24416More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a system on universal basic capital based on the universal roll-out of sidecar accounts into which is paid a one off dividend from the National W
Answer: The Government recognises the positive effect that saving can have on financial resilience and is committed to incentivising greater saving and investment. The Government supports people of all incomes and at all stages of life to save and offers a wide r...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEconomic Growth and Public ExpenditureTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20928More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role her Department’s Enterprise and Growth Unit will have in supporting (a) the Government’s Growth Mission and (b) the Spending Review next year.
Answer: The growth mission is the government’s central mission. The Enterprise and Growth Unit plays a key role in driving the mission forward. It is focused on policy development, in partnership with business, industry and other stakeholders, across the seven gr...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGrowth Mission BoardTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20927More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what role the Growth Mission Board will have in the Spending Review.
Answer: Delivering growth is the government’s number one mission; through the growth mission, the government is restoring stability, increasing investment, and reforming the economy to drive up prosperity and living standards across the UK. This will be reflected...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmploymentTreasuryTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20926More
Question: To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, if she will publish the forecasts of the size of the UK labour force broken down by the net migration forecast by (a) the Office of Budget Responsibility and (b) other bodies for the forecast period used by that Of
Answer: The independent Office for Budget Responsibility is responsible for producing forecasts of the UK economy, including the size of the labour force and net migration. The OBR’s latest forecasts, in the October 2024 Economic and fiscal outlook, are available...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Economic GrowthDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20925More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the impact on economic growth of the measures announced in the Get Britain Working White Paper.
Answer: The trend of economic inactivity is a long-term challenge; the UK is the only country in the G7 with an inactivity rate higher than before the pandemic. Building a thriving labour market, reducing economic inactivity and increasing the number of people in...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20924More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how many economically inactive people will rejoin the workforce as a result of the measures announced in the Get Britain Working White Paper.
Answer: The trend of economic inactivity is a long-term challenge; the UK is the only country in the G7 with an inactivity rate higher than before the pandemic. Building a thriving labour market, reducing economic inactivity and increasing the number of people in...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordResearch: FinanceTreasuryTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20147More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned £20.4 billion of research and development spending on (a) economic growth, (b) the national investment rate and (c) crowding in of private investme
Answer: At Autumn Budget 2024, the government protected R&D by allocating £20.4bn to support its missions, including the growth mission. Recent Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published research has found an average rate of return to public ...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDefence: ExpenditureMinistry of DefenceTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20146More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of defence spending on (a) economic growth and (b) regional growth in each of the next five years.
Answer: The Government is bringing forward a Defence Industrial Strategy that aligns our security and economic priorities. The strategic aim of the Defence Industrial Strategy is to make sure the imperatives of national security and a high-growth economy are addr...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDefence: ProcurementMinistry of DefenceTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference paragraph 4.51 of the Autumn Budget 2024, what his Department's priorities are for the planned £20 billion spending with UK industry in 2025-26.
Answer: Funding for the Ministry of Defence for financial year 2025-26 has not yet been allocated to specific programmes or activities. The Department is still in the process of setting budgets internally.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
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