Every parliamentary written question tabled by Liam Byrne this session, with the full answer and department. Back to the MP page.
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If her Department will take steps to publish a public private economic crime data strategy.
The Government is committed to delivering the Economic Crime Plan 2 commitment to publish a public-private Economic Crime Data Strategy. The Home Office has engaged extensively with stakeholders in the public and private sectors over the last 18 months to determine the vision and content of the strategy and intends to publish a strategy later this year.
If her Department will publish its response to the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences.
The Report from Part One of the Independent Review of Disclosure and Fraud Offences, “Disclosure in the Digital Age”, will be published shortly. The Government Response will be published in due course.
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.
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 next steps in due course.
How many requests were made to Companies House to (a) remove and (b) change director details in each year between 2020 and 2024.
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.
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.
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 behaviour are identified that reflect the typology of money laundering, Companies House will share this information with relevant law enforcement partners, using data sharing powers which came into force in March 2024.
Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will hold a summit of international financial centres.
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 Finance, launched in November 2024, will work in partnership with the rest of His Majesty's Government to deliver a powerful whole of UK Government approach both at home and internationally. The Foreign Secretary is exploring a range of options to galvanise global collective action against this transnational threat, including the idea to host an international summit.
If she will make an estimate of the number of unexplained wealth orders that have been (a) requested by and (b) granted to the National Crime Agency each year from 2020 to 2024.
Between 2020 to 2024, the National Crime Agency (NCA) submitted two applications for unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) in 2023 with one being granted within the same year and the other being granted in 2024.There are a number of variables which impact an operational decision to seek a UWO including: the ease with which evidence can be obtained from overseas; whether it would be proportionate to go to the High Court; and suitability of alternative investigatory powers.The NCA has several other well-established powers under Part 8 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, which they may use to compel information regarding the ownership of asset during an investigation such as Production Orders and Disclosure Orders. The NCA continues to review whether cases are suitable for a UWO.The Government committed to report on the number of UWOs applied for and obtained each year under the Economic Crime Transparency and Enforcement Act 2022.The report covering the 2023-24 period can be found at: Unexplained wealth orders: 2023 to 2024 annual report - GOV.UK
On what date bids for the next wave of City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement funding should be submitted to her Department.
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, which is expected to conclude in late Spring.
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.
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 additional HS2 station in East Birmingham.
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 the public purse of the increase to the State Pension in the next financial year.
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 available at DWP Stat-Xplore. (a) (i) - Birmingham Local Authority WardState Pension CaseloadAcocks Green2,848Allens Cross1,590Alum Rock1,809Aston1,890Balsall Heath West1,083Bartley Green3,565Billesley3,045Birchfield1,027Bordesley and Highgate671Bordesley Green875Bournbrook and Selly Park1,251Bournville and Cotteridge3,502Brandwood and King's Heath2,850Bromford and Hodge Hill2,462Castle Vale1,449Druids Heath and Monyhull1,661Edgbaston2,509Erdington3,155Frankley Great Park1,825Garretts Green1,208Glebe Farm and Tile Cross2,689Gravelly Hill1,052Hall Green North2,806Hall Green South1,830Handsworth1,081Handsworth Wood2,716Harborne3,363Heartlands888Highter's Heath1,663Holyhead956King's Norton North2,110King's Norton South1,609Kingstanding2,714Ladywood1,227Longbridge and West Heath3,498Lozells703Moseley3,189Nechells857Newtown755North Edgbaston2,030Northfield1,970Oscott2,948Perry Barr2,948Perry Common1,714Pype Hayes1,546Quinton3,392Rubery and Rednal1,878Shard End1,729Sheldon3,353Small Heath1,673Soho and Jewellery Quarter1,574South Yardley1,393Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East1,929Sparkhill1,783Stirchley1,271Stockland Green2,553Sutton Four Oaks2,336Sutton Mere Green2,303Sutton Reddicap1,743Sutton Roughley2,354Sutton Trinity1,982Sutton Vesey4,317Sutton Walmley and Minworth3,881Sutton Wylde Green2,441Tyseley and Hay Mills1,070Ward End964Weoley and Selly Oak3,202Yardley East1,751Yardley West and Stechford1,290 (a) (ii) - Solihull Local Authority WardState Pension CaseloadBickenhill2,540Blythe2,761Castle Bromwich2,725Chelmsley Wood1,988Dorridge and Hockley Heath2,692Elmdon2,464Kingshurst and Fordbridge1,784Knowle3,167Lyndon2,434Meriden3,121Olton2,772Shirley East2,371Shirley South2,859Shirley West2,687Silhill2,789Smith's Wood1,868St Alphege3,214 (b) (i) - Birmingham Parliamentary ConstituencyState Pension CaseloadBirmingham Edgbaston14,853Birmingham Erdington16,063Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley13,148Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North14,525Birmingham Ladywood8,847Birmingham Northfield16,997Birmingham Perry Barr12,384Birmingham Selly Oak14,322Birmingham Yardley13,381Sutton Coldfield21,356 (b) (ii) - Solihull Parliamentary ConstituencyState Pension CaseloadBirmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North14,525Meriden and Solihull East20,545Solihull West and Shirley19,100 In 2025/26, it is estimated the total State Pension expenditure will increase by around £9bn (in nominal terms). This estimation is available in the latest Benefit Expenditure and Caseload tables published at Autumn Budget 2024. Source: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024 - GOV.UK
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 and (ii) Solihull broken; and what the average uplift to annual wages will be for people earning the minimum wage.
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 parliamentary constituency are subject to greater data reliability issues due to survey response rates.A full-time worker earning the National Living Wage will see their gross annual earnings rise by £1,400 per year. A full-time worker earning the 18-20 National Minimum Wage will see their gross annual earnings rise by £2,500 per year.
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 available.
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 enable us to fund up to 750 early adopters of the new breakfast clubs. Decisions about future funding for breakfast clubs will be taken as part of the next phase of the spending review.All schools will receive £500 to cover initial set up costs and a lump sum of at least £1,000 per term, regardless of how many pupils are in attendance.Schools will then receive a payment in arrears each term based on the number of pupils who accessed the club and the characteristics of pupils.For the summer term this means there will be two payments. An initial fixed payment will be made to schools at the end of April 2025 for local authority maintained schools and at the beginning of May 2025 for academies. This will include the initial set up and lump sum payment. An arrears payment will be made to schools between October and December 2025, to cover the costs of running the breakfast club in the summer term 2025 (58 days).
What the planned funding allocations for Birmingham and Solihull NHS ICB are in each year for which figures are available.
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 Solihull NHS ICB for 2025/26:Allocation2025/26 amountICB core programme£3,124,548,000ICB delegated specialised services£491,587,000ICB primary medical care£312,120,000ICB pharmacy, ophthalmic, and dental services£151,387,000ICB running cost allowance£21,741,000 Funding beyond 2025/26 will be determined following Phase 2 of the Spending Review, which will conclude later this year.
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 for each year for which figures are available.
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 local authorities are responsible for distributing the funding they receive locally through their own local formulae.For mainstream schools, the DSG allocations show the total amount of funding each local authority receives. This is also split down into its constituent parts: per pupil funding for primary and secondary pupils respectively, premises funding, and growth funding.For early years, the DSG allocations show the total amount of funding each local authority receives through the early years block. The early years block comprises of funding for each of the early years entitlements, as well as additional funding for early years pupil premium, disability access fund and maintained nursery school supplementary funding. The early years block comprises of funding for each of the early years entitlements, as well as additional funding for early years pupil premium, disability access fund and maintained nursery school supplementary funding. Early years allocations for the government funded entitlements are based on an hourly rate and the number of children taking up the entitlements. The hourly rates each local authority receives are calculated using the early years national funding formulae and are published annually. Further details on early years funding rates for 2025/26 financial year can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-funding-2025-to-2026.The early years budget is demand led, and the early years block allocations in the DSG are adjusted based on census and headcount data according to the take-up of the entitlement hours.The DSG publications for each year going back to 2020 can be found at the following addresses:2025/26:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2025-to-2026.2024/25:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025.2023/24:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024.2022/23:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023.2021/22:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022.2020/21:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021.
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.
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 changes in the function and financing of local government, comparable data is not available prior to 2015-16.Funding allocations from future settlements are subject to the outcome of future Spending Reviews. The government is committed to providing a multi-year funding settlement starting in 2026-27.
Communities and Local Government, what annual forecast she has made of the number of new social homes to be built in Birmingham and Solihull.
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 will deliver a mix of homes for sub-market rent and homeownership, with a particular focus on delivering homes for Social Rent.
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 Wealth Fund.
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 range of savings products, including the Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), Junior ISA and Help to Save. We have also committed to consider what more can be done to support household savings as part of the Financial Inclusion Strategy which will be published later this year. The purpose of the National Wealth Fund is to support the delivery of the Government’s industrial strategy, mobilise private capital and make an overall return for the taxpayer. This will support the Government’s clean energy and growth missions.
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 Office.
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 at the OBR’s website.1. The Office for National Statistics publishes National Population Projections. For the purposes of producing these projections, the ONS produces assumptions for the projected growth in population due to net migration. The ONS’s latest projections, published in January 2024, assume long-term net international migration of 315,000 per year from the year ending mid-2028 onwards. The projections are published on the ONS’s website here: National population projections - Office for National Statistics1. https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-october-2024/
What estimate she has made of the impact on economic growth of the measures announced in the Get Britain Working White Paper.
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 work is central to growing the economy. Fundamental reforms announced in the Get Britain Working white paper will help us achieve the bold, long-term ambition of an 80% employment rate, meaning over two million more people in work and the UK as one of the top performing labour markets in the OECD. Backed by £240m of funding announced in the Budget, the White Paper sets out ambitious reform outlined in three interconnected parts:a new jobs and careers service, bringing Jobcentre Plus together with the National Careers Service in England. This new service will support more people into work and help them get on in work, including through an enhanced focus on skills and careers, and will be kickstarted by an initial £55m of funding for tests and trials next year. It will be open to all, helping the 890,000 people who have left the workforce since the pandemic and the 1.9 million who may wish to join it, back into the labour market.a new Youth Guarantee for all 18-21 year olds in England, to ensure they have an offer of education, training or help to find work. This is backed by £45m in funding for trailblazers across eight mayoral authorities in England starting next year to help bring the 946,000 young people not in education, employment or training back into the workforce.£15m to support the development of local Get Britain Working plans for areas across England. These plans will set out how economic inactivity will be tackled at a local level, led by Mayors and local areas. An additional £125m will fund eight trailblazers across England and Wales to tackle economic inactivity through increased engagement and tailored approaches because we know that one size does not fit all and inactivity rates vary between areas, with the North East at 26.8% and the South West at 17.9%.
What role the Growth Mission Board will have in the Spending Review.
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 in the government’s approach to the Spending Review, as part of which departments will be required to prioritise growth within their spending plans. The Growth Mission Board will continue to drive forward the government’s growth mission to rebuild Britain and make every part of the country better off.