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Written Question
Business: Loans
Tuesday 25th February 2025

Asked by: Earl of Clancarty (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many businesses with three employees or fewer are still paying back Government-backed loans provided during the COVID-19 pandemic; and what consideration they have given to cancelling the remainder of what is owed by those businesses.

Answered by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Government does not hold data on the number of businesses with three employees or less who have taken out a Covid support loan.

There is no specific repayment policy relating to businesses with three employees or less.