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Business: Loans

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 21 May 2025UIN 52448

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data his Department holds on the proportion of British Business Bank-backed loans which include personal guarantee requirements from borrowers.

Answered by Gareth Thomas

The British Business Bank utilises accredited delivery partners to deliver its schemes. Under the Growth Guarantee Scheme (formerly the Recovery Loan Scheme), delivery partners are required to apply personal guarantees where they would in the course of their normal commercial lending. Under GGS and RLS 3, approximately 70% of facilities have been recorded by the lender as having a personal guarantee attached.

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