British Business Bank FOI Requests – Mr Bounce Back – Bounce Back Loan Complaints and Scandals

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[ November 25, 2022 ] Meeting Between the Cabinet Office, Lloyds Bank and Starling Bank About Fraud in the Bounce Back Loan Scheme to Remain Secret and the Cabinet Office Says Its “Vexatious” of Me to Ask What It Was About Todays News
[ November 25, 2022 ] Providing Knowingly Inaccurate Trading and Turnover Information to Bag a £32,000 Barclays Bounce Back Loan and Leaving it Unpaid at Liquidation Leads to a Hefty 11 Year Disqualification The Disqualification Files
[ November 25, 2022 ] With No Accounting Records Supplied to the Liquidator It Was Not Possible to Determine Whether a Company Director Was Guilty of Any Bounce Back Loan Wrongdoing So He Gets a Reduced 6 Year Ban The Disqualification Files
[ November 24, 2022 ] After Working Out a Company Was Not Trading When It Secured a Santander Bounce Back Loan by Checking Its Bank Account, Whether It Was Paying Business Rates and the Lease of the Business Premises, a Director is Given a 10 Year Ban for BBL Wrongdoing The Disqualification Files
[ November 23, 2022 ] 10 Year Ban for Getting a Barclays Bounce Back Loan of £50k By Over-Egging His Company’s Turnover When Only Entitled to a BBL Valued at a Tad Under £10k and Leaving it Owing at Liquidation The Disqualification Files
[ November 21, 2022 ] The Insolvency Service Refuses, On the Grounds of Befuddlement and Then Cost, to Give Figures on the Number of Company Directors Who Have Successfully Appealed a Decision to Ban Them for Bounce Back Loan Wrongdoing Subscriber Special
[ November 21, 2022 ] Skulduggery with a £50k Barclays Bounce Back Loan and Blagging Tower Hamlets Council Out of Business Grants, Sees a Company Director Slapped with a 9 Year Disqualification The Disqualification Files
[ November 21, 2022 ] Having Blagged a £50k Bounce Back Loan from Santander for His Business That it Was Not Entitled to and then Transferring it to Himself and Taking the Insolvency Route with the BBL Still Owing, a Company Director is Given an 11 Year Ban The Disqualification Files
[ November 21, 2022 ] Over-Egging His Company’s Turnover to Secure a Bounce Back Loan Higher in Value Than Eligible for, Then Signing to Get His Company Struck Off Results in a Company Director Getting a 9 Year Ban The Disqualification Files
[ November 20, 2022 ] NatWest Decline a Customers Bounce Back Loan Stating He Wasn’t Trading Prior to March 1st, 2020, Even Though He Had Been Trading for Years – Ombudsman Finally Orders Them to Pay Him £250 BBL Complaints and Outcomes
[ November 20, 2022 ] NatWest Told to Pay £100 Compensation and 8% Interest on £300 They Delayed Paying out to a Customer When They Approved but then Declined His Bounce Back Loan and Closed His Account BBL Complaints and Outcomes
[ November 19, 2022 ] Read the Testimony of Someone Who Purchased a Rolex Watch, Travelled and Gambled and Misused a Bounce Back Loan Who Has Just Been Given a 7 Year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order. Plus, Three Other People In a Similar Situation The Disqualification Files
[ November 18, 2022 ] As the Taxpayer Protection Taskforce Get Ready to Disband, Tales of the Hoops They Make SME’s Jump Through to Verify They Were Eligible for SEISS, the Eat Out to Help Out and the Job Retention Schemes Continue to Come In – Here is One of the Letters They Send Out Subscriber Special
[ November 17, 2022 ] With No Accounting Records Supplied to the Liquidator That Could Have Explained Where a £50k Bounce Back Loan Went, a Company Director is Given a 6 Year Disqualification The Disqualification Files
[ November 17, 2022 ] Co-Directors Slapped with Very Modest 4 Year Disqualifications for Wrongdoing Associated with a Barclays Bounce Back Loan and Trading to the Detriment of HMRC The Disqualification Files

November 28, 2022

What Percentage of For Profit Businesses Have Applied for a Bounce Back Loan?

January 29, 2021

Below you will see one of many FOI Requests sent into the British Business Bank this one asks a range of questions including what percentage of businesses that operate on a “for profit” basis have […]

Decision to Accredit Tide as a Bounce Back Loan Lender

January 29, 2021

Tide has certainly attracted a lot of negative attention since they launched their Bounce Back Loan facility, in a nutshell they did not have enough funds available to lend out to everyone who went on […]

Internal Review of a FOI Request Reply

January 29, 2021

Many people who do put in a FOI Request with the British Business Bank will get a response they were not expecting, that being a blank refusal by that organisation to answer the question or […]

Names of Every Company That Has Received a Bounce Back Loan

January 29, 2021

Below you will find the official response from the British Business Bank to one commonly asked question put to them via a FOI Request. That being for the names of all businesses that have received […]

Rate of Defaults on the Bounce Back Loan Scheme

January 29, 2021

This FOI Request was sent into the British Business Bank on the 14th of July 2020 was answered by them on the 15th of September 2020. The question asked was fairly straightforward that being what […]

Draft Review of Letter Commissioned by the BBB from PWC Re. Bounce Back Loans

January 29, 2021

Another interesting FOI Request sent into the British Business Bank this one as you will see below asks for a copy of a letter commissioned by the BBB from PWC regarding a review of the […]

Losses Due to Errors and Fraud Relating to Bounce Back Loans

January 29, 2021

There are bound to be plenty of losses reported due to errors and fraud regarding Bounce Back Loans and that was one of several questions asked on this FOI Request sent into the British Business […]

Bounce Back Loans Offered to Staffordshire Based Businesses

January 29, 2021

Here we have a FOI Request asking the British Business Bank how many Staffordshire based Businesses listed by Local Authority have been offered a Bounce Back Loan. It was submitted on the 21st of September […]

Risk Assessment Performed on Bounce Back Loan Scheme

January 29, 2021

This FOI Request sent into the British Business Bank asks a simple question, that being what risk assessments if any have been performed on the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, along with a couple of other […]

Steps Taken to Ensure Everyone Eligible Can Access BBL Scheme

January 29, 2021

Another three FOI Requests that I sent into the British Business Bank are listed below along with their reply. How many, if any, **new lenders are currently going through the Bounce Back Loan facility approval […]