New Businesses: Loans

Michael Fallon Excerpts

Tuesday 17th June 2014 Ministerial Corrections

[Toby Perkins]

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many Start Up Loans applications have been supported by each approved provider of Start Up Loans mentoring services in each region in which the new company was based or planned to be based.

[Official Report, 16 June 2014, Vol. 582, c. 425W.]

Letter of correction from Matthew Hancock:

An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Toby Perkins) on 16 June 2014.

The full answer given was as follows:

[Michael Fallon]

All loan recipients in all regions receiving a start-up loan are offered mentoring, although take up of support services is not a mandatory condition of making the facility available. The number of loans made in each region will be placed in the Libraries of the House.

The correct answer should have been:

[Matthew Hancock]

All loan recipients in all regions receiving a start-up loan are offered mentoring, although take up of support services is not a mandatory condition of making the facility available. The number of loans made in each region will be placed in the Libraries of the House.