On those visits, was the right hon. Gentleman aware of, or did he come across, the fact that quite a few businesses, far from getting more lending, are experiencing a squeeze on their overdraft facilities, which are being reduced by the very banks that are promising to be more generous? Will his and his Committee's investigations perhaps consider whether anything in the Budget might force the banks to be more generous with their overdraft facilities, and certainly not reduce them, when those companies are desperate to invest?
Amendment of the law
Proceeding contribution from
Lembit Opik
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 22 April 2009.
It occurred during Budget debate on Amendment of the law.
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