Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Mark Prisk and Lord Hart of Tenby

Thursday 14th July 2011 Commons Chamber

[Mr Prisk]

We have one—it is me.

[Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire) (Con)]

T6. One of the major barriers to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in west Wales is banks refusing to offer facilities to—or, worse still, withdrawing facilities from—companies that are perfectly viable and with which they have had a relationship over many years. Will the Minister offer any advice to those companies and ensure us that he will work with the Treasury to iron out these issues?