Cable promises £1bn 'business bank'
The government is to put £1bn into setting up a bank designed to increase the amount of lending to businesses, Vince Cable has announced.
The business secretary told the Liberal Democrat conference this will help many small and medium-sized companies who have struggled for credit since the financial crisis.
Mr Cable also promised a more coherent strategy to help get the UK out of recession.
He said: "We need a new British Business Bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy".
24 Sep 2012
- From the section UK Politics