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SME Lending

Inquiry by the Treasury Committee, 11 February 2014 to 16 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 25 February 2014: Professor Russel Griggs OBE, Independent External Reviewer of the Banking Taskforce Appeals Process; Priyen Patel, Senior Policy Advisor, Federation of Small Businesses, and Matthew Fell, Director of Competitive Markets, Confederation of British Industry (at 11.00 am).
  • 29 April 2014: Peter Hollis, Hollis and Co, Chris Lane, Kingston Smith, Ronel Lehmann,Lehmann Communications Ltd, Laurence Beere, L&H Hotels Ltd, Tim Murphy, Seneca Banking Consultants and Jeremy Roe,Bully-Banks
  • 10 June 2014: Richard Pyman, CEO of Shawbrook, and Anders Bouvin, UK CEO of Handelsbanken and Martin Morrin, Chair of the Asset-based Lending Association and Managing Director at RBS Invoice Finance, Frances Coulson, Managing & Client Services Partner, Moon Beever Solicitors and Prof. Mark Watson-Gandy, Thirteen Old Square Chambers
  • 17 June 2014: David Thorburn, Chief Executive, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, and Debbie Crosbie, Executive Director, Customer Trust and Confidence, National Australia Group Europe, Chris Sullivan, Deputy Group Chief Executive, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Derek Sach, Head of Global Restructuring Group, Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • 1 July 2014: Tony Boorman, Interim Chief Executive and Chief Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service, Chris Woolard, Director of Policy, Risk and Research, Financial Conduct Authority, and Nausicaa Delfas, Head of the Specialist Supervision Department, Financial Conduct Authority, Andrea Leadsom MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury, Alison Cottrell, Financial Services, HM Treasury, and Jeremy Pocklington, Director, Enterprise and Growth, HM Treasury
  • 16 July 2014: Tim Hinton, Managing Director, SME & Mid Markets Banking, Commercial Banking, Lloyds Bank, and Rebecca McNeil, Head of Business Lending, Barclays, Samir Desai, CEO and Co-founder, Funding Circle, Anil Stocker, CEO and Founder, MarketInvoice, and Tony Askew, Chair of the BVCA Venture Capital Committee and Partner at Reed Elsevier Ventures.
  • 21 July 2014: Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive, Competition and Markets Authority; Dr Andrea Coscelli, Executive Director, Markets and Mergers, Competition and Markets Authority; and Dan Moore, Project Director, SME Banking Market Study, Competition and Markets Authority.