Written Question·Treasury·UIN 82265

Small Businesses: Loans

Tabled: 15 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Gareth Thomas

Labour (Co-op)Harrow West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will provide the Financial Ombudsman Service with additional powers to monitor the use of personal guarantees by financial services companies for lending to small and medium sized businesses.

Answer

Lucy Rigby
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) was set up to resolve complaints between consumers and small businesses, and their financial services providers. While the Treasury sets the legal framework in which the FOS operates, the rules on how the FOS should h...

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