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<p>Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented demand for banking
services, this accompanied with working restrictions due to social distancing has
meant banks have faced significant capacity pressures which has limited their ability
to meet demand for their services. Banks are doing all they can to meet this demand
in these difficult circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions about what products are
offered to individual businesses remain commercial decisions for banks and building
societies. It would be inappropriate for the Government to intervene in these decisions.
But the Government has always been clear that lenders should open to new customers
where it is operationally possible for them to do so.</p>
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