British Business Bank
(asked on 7th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many businesses in (a) St Helens North, (b) Merseyside, (c) the North West and (d) the UK have received funding from the British Business Bank since its inception.
The British Business Bank (BBB) is a government-owned economic development bank. It manages the UK Government’s access to finance programmes for smaller businesses within a single commercially-minded institution. The Bank received State aid clearance to start operating in November 2014. Since this date, BBB has provided funding to the following businesses:
| St Helen's North | Merseyside | North West | UK |
No of SMEs | 34 (excl. ENABLE Funding) | 466 (excl. Start-up Loans) | 6,921 | 43,918 |