Question follow-through · 66806
Seventy Ninth Group: Fraud
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department’s policies of cases of fraud involving the Seventy Ninth Group.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department’s policies of cases of fraud involving the Seventy Ninth Group.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2025
Answer published
On 28 February 2025, the City of London Police announced that it was investigating allegations of fraud in relation to the 79th Group. It is understood that the 79th Group offered investment opportunities involving loan notes that were marketed as being s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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