Month: August 2021

This week I will be taking legal action regarding the Bounce Back Loan scheme, obviously I will not reveal the route I am taking just yet. However, it will encompass the fact that those wanting a BBL had to sign away their legal rights to get one of those loans. In this article a Member of the House of Lords will let you know just what rights you signed away when applying for a BBL as many people are unaware that they had. […]

I have now received confirmation that HSBC have been sending out failed Safeguard Review letters in error and more staff come forward to say they are overworked and undertrained. But we all know HSBC is not a bank that values customers so no surprise to discover that their staff are complaining of feeling neglected too. […]

HMRC sneaked out an update yesterday informing those who have already submitted their 20/21 Self-Assessment that they need to check it if they claimed an SEISS grant before 6th of April, as HMRC may have adjusted that return. […]

I am now getting reports from HSBC BBL recipients that they are receiving letters telling them their accounts and facilities with that bank are at risk of being closed, or are being closed, if they […]

In this section of the website you will find the much more mundane Freedom of Information Requests and replies that the British Business Bank have received/sent out recently. As always, I have converted the PDF files into image files to make reading/saving them easier. The much more “juicer ones” can be found in the sections of the website listed. Enjoy. […]

An “Investment Big Bang” is what Boris and Rishi are eager to see moving forward, and in this heartfelt plea to institutional investors they bestow the virtues of the many green industries that are ripe for the picking across the UK. […]

I recently asked the British Business Bank how many Recovery Loans had been approved, they replied saying it would be in September when they reveal those figures, but hinted, as we all know, approvals are not huge in number. However, they have supplied me with some figures relating to Start-Up Loans which show 93,384 applications have been declined and […]