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answer › date of answer	2015-07-23
min answer › question first answered	2015-07-21T14:32:07.13Z
answer › is ministerial correction	false
hansard heading	Productivity
max answer › date of answer	2018-12-19
max answer › question first answered	2017-12-19T14:02:00.533Z

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15/07/2015

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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Business, Innovation and Skills

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Productivity

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of zombie companies on national productivity; and if he will make a statement.

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Mid Sussex

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Sir Nicholas Soames

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is ministerial correction

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23/07/2015

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<p>Zombie companies are companies that are allowed by banks to delay repayment of a loan so that they effectively only pay the interest due rather than the full loan amount. Bank of England analysis of this ‘loan forbearance’ suggests that only a relatively small proportion of small businesses are in receipt of any form of forbearance (around 6% of SME borrowers in 2013). The Bank concludes that forbearance by banks on loans to small businesses would therefore appear to account for only a small proportion of the weakness in aggregate UK productivity. The Bank’s analysis was published in the Bank’s quarterly bulletin which can be found on the Bank of England’s website.</p>

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Broxtowe

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Anna Soubry

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23/07/2015 10:57:14

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label	Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching