Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which fruitless payments in excess of £30,000 her Department has made by (a) recipient of each such payment, (b) purpose of each such payment, (c) value of each such payment and (d) reason that payment was classified as fruitless in the 2017-18 financial year to date.

Disclosure of any fruitless payments made in 2017-18 will be made in accordance with the requirements set out in Managing Public Money and published in the Department’s 2017/18 Annual Report and Accounts, planned for July 2018. The Department waits until its Annual Accounts to publish this information so that the National Audit Office can verify to the House that any disclosures made meet audit standards.