Business and Enterprise Committee - Minutes of Evidence
Financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 16 December 2008.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Business and Enterprise Committee

on Tuesday 16 December 2008

Members present

Peter Luff, in the Chair

Mr Adrian Bailey	Mr Lindsay Hoyle
Roger Berry	Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Brian Binley	Anne Moffat
Mr Michael Clapham	Mr Mike Weir

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: Mr David Frost, Director General, British Chambers of Commerce, Mr Andrew Cave, Head of Policy, Federation of Small Businesses and Mr Michael Izza, Chief Executive, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-45

Witnesses: Mr Steve Cooper, Managing Director, Local Business, Barclays Bank, Mr John Maltby, Managing Director, Commercial Banking, Lloyds TSB, Ms Lynne Peacock, Chief Executive Officer, Clydesdale Bank, and Mr Peter Ibbetson, Chairman, RBS Small Businesses, Royal Bank of Scotland, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

46-59

60-79

80-99

100-119

120-131

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Prepared 23 March 2009