Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 90109

Small Businesses: Loans

Tabled: 12 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Gareth Thomas

Labour (Co-op)Harrow West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has commissioned research from National Institute of Economic and Social Research in the last three years on (a) international lending rates and (b) levels international lending to SMEs.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The Department for Business and Trade has commissioned research on the alternatives to commercial lending in the SME Business Market. The research, undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, intends to study the characteristics ...

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