Question follow-through · 7122
Small Businesses: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the average time for SMEs to receive a decision on bank loan applications.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the average time for SMEs to receive a decision on bank loan applications.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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11 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department does not currently collect information on trends in the average time for SMEs to receive a decision on bank loan applications. Last year, the Government’s call for evidence on small business access to finance found that the shift to digital...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Small Businesses: Loans
15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, further to the Answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 7122, if he will collect data on the average time for SMEs to receive a decision on bank loan applications.