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BEIS Annual Report & Accounts 2020-21

Inquiry

Gareth Davies, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the National Audit Office, has qualified his audit opinion on the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2020-21 accounts because of the material levels of fraud and error in COVID-19 business support scheme expenditure.

The Committee will question senior officials at BEIS on

  • the reasons and context for the qualified audit opinion in relation to fraud and error in the COVID-19 business loan scheme guarantees and COVID-19 business support grants; and
  • the Department’s current estimates of the level of fraud and error in these loan and grant schemes, including the levels of uncertainty in these estimates.

If you have evidence on these issues please submit it here by Wednesday 16 February 2022 18:00.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Wednesday 16 February 2022.

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Wednesday 23 February 2022
1:30pm Private
2:00pm Public
Oral evidence session 23 February 2022
NAO Estimates 2022-23 - Oral evidence
2:00pm
  • Gareth Davies (Comptroller & Auditor General at National Audit Office)
  • Daniel Lambauer (Executive Director at National Audit Office)
  • Rebecca Sheeran (Executive Director at National Audit Office)
BEIS Annual Report & Accounts 2020-21 - Oral evidence
2:30pm
  • Sarah Munby (Permanent Secretary at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
  • Tom Taylor (Strategic Finance Director & Chief Financial Officer at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
  • Kim Humberstone OBE (Co-Director of Finance at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

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