Lord Goodman of Wycombe

HL8304 • Green Recovery Challenge Fund

To ask His Majesty's Government how many Green Recovery Challenge Fund Round 1 and 2 projects underwent independent auditing or verification of reported environmental outcomes, and how many of those audits identified discrepancies or inflated reporting by grant recipients.

HL8305 • Green Recovery Challenge Fund

To ask His Majesty's Government what was their original target number of apprenticeships supported by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund Round 1, and how many apprenticeships were completed.

HL8306 • British Business Bank

To ask His Majesty's Government when the British Bank Business last underwent a board effectiveness review, and whether they will place a copy of that review in the Library of the House.

HL8307 • British Business Bank

To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the guidance List of Public Bodies for Review in 2023/24, updated on 25 April 2024, whether a reviewer has been appointed for the review of the British Business Bank; and if so, who is that reviewer, what are the terms of reference for that review, and what is the current status of that review.

HL8308 • Business: Coronavirus

To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the transparency data COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes repayment data: March 2025, published on 6 June, what is the total fraud loss rate as a percentage of total lending for each of the COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes; and how those rates compare to the amounts flagged as suspected fraud by lenders.

HL8309 • Business: Coronavirus

To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to the transparency data COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes repayment data: March 2025, published on 6 June, what proportion by value of total guarantee claims made by lenders relate explicitly to suspected fraud loss as opposed to credit loss.

HL8251 • Celsa Steel UK: Loans

To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to HM Treasury: 2023 COVID-19 Cost Tracker update, published 20 July 2023, what is the current status of the measure 'last resort business interventions' (ID31); whether the £30 million loan issued to Celsa Steel (UK) under that measure has been fully repaid, partially repaid, written off, or otherwise resolved; and what is the final outturn lifetime cost of that intervention.

HL8252 • Government Departments: Fraud

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish a list of all accredited national statistics produced by departments about fraud and error in public expenditure, including precise titles, responsible departments, publication frequencies, and most recent dates of publication.

HL8253 • Business: Coronavirus

To ask His Majesty's Government, with reference to HM Treasury: 2023 COVID-19 Cost Tracker update, published 20 July 2023, whether they will provide a breakdown of the £258 million estimated lifetime cost of the administration of the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme, Recovery Loan Scheme and the Future Fund (ID421), including how much of this expenditure has been incurred to date, and how they expect the remaining expenditure to be allocated.

HL8254 • Film & TV Production Restart Scheme

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the fraud and error of the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme; what processes are in place to identify, quantify and mitigate fraud and error in that scheme; and how much has been recovered as a result of those processes as of the most recent date available.

HL8255 • Culture Recovery Fund

To ask His Majesty's Government what total quantified estimate they have made of fraud and error in the Culture Recovery Fund; what methodology, including statistical sampling or independent audit verification, they used to calculate that estimate; and how that methodology has evolved since the start of the fund.

HL8256 • Trees: Conservation

To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the 1.1 million trees planted in round 1 of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund have survived, what monitoring processes are in place to track the survival rate, and what estimate they have made of the cost per surviving tree.

HL2911 • Radicalism: Civil Society

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 11 October (HC5739) and 17 October (HC6994), whether it remains their policy not to engage with the organisations cited in the Written Statement by the former Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 14 March (HCWS342).

HL2912 • Radicalism

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by the Parliamentary Under Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 5 September (HC2635) and 11 October (HC5739), what specific Government activity has ceased or changed to facilitate the £5 million of departmental savings on extremism.

HL965 • Radicalism

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 5 September (HC2635), and further to the Written Statement by Baroness Swinburne on 14 March (HLWS336), whether they continue to maintain (1) the definition of extremism, and (2) the engagement principles, set out in that Statement; and what changes have been made to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (a) work in this area, and (b) funding of that work, since the general election.

HL966 • Counter-extremism Centre of Excellence

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 9 September (HC2987), and further to the Written Statement by Baroness Swinburne on 14 March (HLWS336) , whether the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is continuing to fund and support the new counter-extremism centre of excellence.

HL967 • Radicalism: Islam

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Housing, Communities and Local Government on 9 September (HC2987), and further to the Written Statement by Baroness Swinburne on 14 March (HLWS336), what steps they are taking to counter Islamist extremism and ideologies.