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£50 Billion Liquity Comment - business  lending must also be a priority

If you are writing about the Chancellor's plan to inject £50 billion into the banking sector to encourage lending, please consider the following comment from Alysoun Stewart, Head of Entrepreneurial Advisory, Grant Thornton:

"While the Government's £50 billion banking sector liquidity injection will be a welcome relief for homeowners and first time buyers throughout the UK, the Treasury should equally be encouraging banks to free up funds for business loans as a condition of the funding."

"As in the housing sector, businesses are being negatively impacted by much tighter lending controls, and there is less appetite for expansion and growth as a result. To keep the economy on track, the government ignores business lending at its peril."

"Entrepreneurship is often funded through homeownership, so the two issues are also directly linked. Businesses will therefore welcome greater liquidity in the mortgage market, but business lending must also be part of the bigger picture, or the UK may end up propping up house prices at the expense of business growth."