Access to finance inquiry

Inquiry by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, 16 December 2015 to 16 December 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 1st Report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - Access to finance (31 October 2016)
• 1st Report of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - Access to finance (31 October 2016)
• 5th Special Report - Access to finance: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report (30 January 2017)

Evidence sessions

• 4 May 2016: Suren Thiru, Head of Economics and Business Finance, British Chambers of Commerce, Jimmy McLoughlin, Head of Entrepreneurship Policy, Institute of Directors, Tom McMurtrie, Managing Director, Hymid Two-Shot Ltd and EEF member, Andrew Sandiford, Partner, Bishop Fleming, and Simon Littlewood, Partner, Grant Thornton, gave evidence
• 28 June 2016: Gareth Oakley, Managing Director, SME Banking, Lloyds Banking Group, Rishi Khosla, Chief Execitive Officer, Oaknorth Bank, Marcus Stuttard, Head of UK Primary Markets & Head of AIM, London Stock ExchangeChris Hulatt, Chief Financial Officer & founder, Octopus Investments, James Meekings, UK Managing Director & co-founder, Funding Circle
• 12 July 2016: Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition, FCA, Keith Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, British Business BankAnna Soubry MP, Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills