Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many small businesses (a) applied for and (b) were awarded loans from the Coronavirus Bounce Back Loan Scheme in (a) England and (b) North East England to date.

As of our final evaluation of the scheme of July 6 2021, 1,357,116 Bounce Back Loans have been offered in England, to the value of £41.47bn. In the North East of England, 48,262 loans were offered to the value of £1,341,695,001.

Across the UK, 2,094,858 applications for a Bounce Back Loan were made; 1,560,309 were successful. We do not hold this data at regional level.