Written Question·Treasury·UIN 98756
Small Businesses: Finance
Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025
Named DayQuestion
Mr Gregory Campbell
Democratic Unionist Party — East Londonderry
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how she will notify SMEs that their bank is a designated bank under any scheme set up to ensure customers that are rejected for finance approval can be matched with alternatives who will offer support.
Answer
Lucy RigbyThe Bank Referral Scheme is an initiative dating back to 2014, which requires major lenders (designated banks) to refer SME customers that they reject for finance, with the SMEs’ permission, to finance platforms that can match the SME with alternative fin...
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