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Bounce Back Loan Scheme: Fraud

Asked by Mike MartinLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 80403

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2025 to Question 76154 on Bounce Back Loan Scheme: Fraud, for what reason his Department's contract with the National Investigation Service to investigate Covid-1

Answered by Blair McDougall

The contract with Thurrock for the services of the National Investigation Service (NATIS) was renewed under the previous government on 1 April 2024 to continue service delivery.

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