Question follow-through · 93337
Iwoca: Loans
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the cost of business loans offered by IWOCA.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the cost of business loans offered by IWOCA.
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
I refer my honourable friend to the answers I provided on the topic of SME lending on 23 October, and more recently in relation to the rate of short-term lending to small and medium sized businesses in the UK. Interest rates, including those offered by in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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