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

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[ 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 17, 2022 ] Erroneously Over-Egging Her Business Turnover to Get a Much Higher Barclays Bounce Back Loan Than Her Business Was Entitled to Leads to a 6 Year Disqualification The Disqualification Files
[ November 17, 2022 ] 7 Year Disqualification for Failing to Inform His Bounce Back Loan Lender He Had Applied for a Dissolution of His Company and Using the BBL for Personal Benefit The Disqualification Files
[ November 16, 2022 ] Outrageous Bounce Back Loan Blagger Given a 15 Month Prison Sentence Suspended for 18 Months – Even Though He Repaid the BBL in Full When His Wrongdoing Had Been Rumbled Subscriber Special

November 24, 2022

All Freedom of Information Requests Received by and the Replies Sent Out by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Related to Bounce Back Loans

July 22, 2021

I asked for and have been sent every single Freedom of Information Request received by and the replies sent out by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) that are in any way shape or form related to Bounce Back Loans, and as such here they all […]

The British Business Bank Do Not Know the Percentage of Recovery Loan Scheme Applicants that are Being Approved for Loans

June 24, 2021

I find it rather strange that the British Business Bank claim not to know the percentage of Recovery Loan Scheme applicants that are being approved for loans, and this is what they have to say: […]

British Business Bank Admit 85 of Approx 450 Employees/Board Members Have Conflicts of Interests

June 24, 2021

It is probably no surprise to learn a large number of British Business Bank employees/Board Members have conflicts of interest and here is what that organisation has to say on that matter. […]

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation within the British Business Bank

June 22, 2021

With many organisations adopting a range of different artificial intelligence schemes and tools, this Freedom of Information Request is asking the British Business Bank if they have adopted any of them or intend to. […]

British Business Bank Live and Ongoing Contracts

June 22, 2021

Someone submitted a Freedom of Information request to the British Business Bank asking questions about their Contracts Register and live and ongoing contracts, below you will find their reply. […]

How Many FOIs Did the British Business Bank Receive?

June 22, 2021

Having been sent all FOIs requests sent into the British Business Bank, there have certainly been some unusual ones, the two displayed below is asking them how many Freedom of Information Requests they received during a set period. […]

Does the British Business Bank Keep Archived Paper Documents FOI Request and Reply

June 22, 2021

I am working my way through lots of FOI requests and the replies to each of them, and the one you can see below is asking some weird and wonderful questions related to the British Business Bank and archived paper documents. […]

British Business Bank FOI Requesting the Value and Number of Future Fund Loans and a List of Companies the Government Now Have a Stake In

June 21, 2021

As the title for this British Business Bank FOI Request indicates, someone is asking for the number of Future Fund Loans and the value of them along with the names of each company the UK Government now have a stake in. […]

FOI Request and Reply Relating to the British Business Bank’s Internal Plans and Strategy Documents surrounding ICT

June 21, 2021

This FOI Request sent into and replied by the British Business Banks is related to the strategy documents and internal plans surrounding ICT. […]

Freedom of Information Request to the British Business Bank about Communication Contracts

June 21, 2021

This FOI request is quite a detailed one asking a range of questions related to communication contracts the British Business Bank have in place. […]