Policy paper

Business Finance Partnership activity report

A summary of investment and lending activity, achieved through the medium-sized business strand of the Business Finance Partnership.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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The Business Finance Partnership aims to increase lending to small and medium-sized businesses from sources other than banks. It has 2 strands. The first strand invests in fund managers who lend to medium-sized businesses. The second strand invests in non-traditional lenders that provide an alternative source of lending for small businesses.

So far the scheme has helped create around £5 of lending for every £1 of taxpayers’ money. A total of £172 million of government money has been used by the lenders alongside an additional £705 million from private sector investors to lend a total of £877 million to 18 medium-sized businesses and 880 small businesses.

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Published 12 September 2013

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