Skip to main content

Proceeding contribution from Mark Prisk (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 March 2009. It occurred during Debate on bill on Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill.


Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill

My argument was that Business Link and Ministers advised that the ability to convert an overdraft was specifically included in the scheme, yet the bank in question excluded the business on that very point, and not on a wider issue. I am not trying to ask the Minister to investigate an individual business but, whatever he may have been told, all the advice that we are getting from businesses suggests that the training on the ground in the high street banks simply is not there. When the Minister says that we are making progress, that rather contradicts what the noble Lord Mandelson loves to do, which is to go on ITN, as he did on 14 January, and say, "The scheme is open for business." Of course, the scheme he mentioned has not even started.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
489 c694 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Business Banks Finance Exports Export credit guarantees Government assistance UK Export Finance Motor vehicles Manufacturing industries Public expenditure Small businesses VAT World economy
Legislation
Industry and Exports (Financial Support) Bill 2008-09
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk