Question follow-through · 81797

Small Businesses: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will ask the British Business Bank to support credit unions to offer loans to small businesses.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body: Department for Business and Trade
Tabled: 14 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 20 Oct 2025
Answer: 20 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will ask the British Business Bank to support credit unions to offer loans to small businesses.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
The British Business Bank is backing Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) with £150 million of capital through the Community ENABLE Funding programme, to support small businesses that are under-served by commercial lenders.Credit unions play...

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