- Purpose
- The purpose of the pilot is to identify the extent of potential fraud committed by Sole Traders within the BBLS.
- Information sharing benefits
- The pilot enables the Government to identify borrowers who fraudulently obtained BBLs and to place cases with Lenders and law enforcement agencies for recovery and/or prosecution.
- Disclosed information
- Data items disclosed will be the minimum data items to allow this data share to be achieved.
- Information sharing method
- Secure File Transfer
- Contact
- foi.team@hmrc.gov.uk
- Start date
- 2023-11-23
- End date
- 2026-06-30
- Review date
- 2025-11-20
- Retention period
- P2Y7M
- Isa status
- Active
- Id
- 354
- Notes
- Pilot's original end date was 30/11/25. A variation for extension was approved on the 20/11/2025 with a new end date of 30/06/2026.
- Updated
- 20 December 2025