Bank Lending (Small Businesses)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 21 June 2011.

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Photo of Laura Sandys Laura Sandys Conservative, South Thanet 2:30, 21 June 2011

Did Project Merlin also cover transparency in respect of the covenants banks require small businesses to put forward, and has that increased over the last three or four years? I ask because this seems to be one of the big barriers to small businesses taking out loans.