Business: Government Assistance Mr. Sanders To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many small businesses in each constituency in the south-west have applied for financial assistance under the (a) Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme and (b) Capital Enterprise Scheme since its inception; and how many such applications were granted. Ms Rosie Winterton Under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, as of 27 January, 744 businesses in the south-west region have drawn down loans totalling £66.38 million. The figures for each individual constituency in the South West region will be deposited in the Library of the House. Businesses may apply for a loan from any one of the participating lenders who will assess which form of lending, including the Enterprise Finance Guarantee, is most appropriate. We do not hold figures for those businesses which are instead offered a normal commercial loan, or are rejected for failing to meet the lender's commercial criteria. With respect to the Capital for Enterprise Fund equity scheme, CfEF received 77 enquiries from businesses in the south-west seeking investment to the value of £84.3 million. Thus far, no businesses have received investment, two businesses have agreed terms on investments with a value £4 million, one business has been offered investment totalling £2 million and one proposition is under active consideration with a value of £1.3 million. The remaining inquiries are either being considered subject to further information to be supplied by the applicant or have been rejected or withdrawn. I am not providing a breakdown by parliamentary constituency or local authority as this could make it possible to identify the individual companies that have received support. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Constituency name |Count of loan amount|Sum of loan amount (£ million)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bath |24 |1.20 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bournemouth East |12 |1.07 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bournemouth West |20 |2.50 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bridgwater |11 |0.85 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol East |21 |2.76 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol North West |10 |0.71 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol South |6 |0.45 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol West |30 |5.02 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cheltenham |21 |1.99 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Christchurch |15 |1.55 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cotswold |16 |0.82 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Devizes |20 |1.22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Devon |6 |0.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Exeter |24 |2.46 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Falmouth and Camborne |11 |0.85 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Forest of Dean |9 |0.87 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Gloucester |13 |0.75 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Kingswood |19 |1.88 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Mid Dorset and North Poole|10 |0.58 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Cornwall |31 |1.93 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Devon |17 |1.61 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Dorset |11 |1.02 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Swindon |11 |2.02 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Wiltshire |13 |1.48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Northavon |19 |1.48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Plymouth, Devonport |13 |1.65 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Plymouth, Sutton |29 |1.77 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Poole |15 |1.57 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Salisbury |12 |1.01 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Somerton and Frome |19 |0.90 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South Dorset |12 |0.64 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South East Cornwall |15 |2.43 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South Swindon |19 |3.54 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West Devon |25 |3.48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |St. Ives |12 |0.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stroud |21 |1.24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Taunton |16 |1.27 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Teignbridge |6 |0.21 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tewkesbury |26 |2.69 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tiverton and Honiton |25 |2.58 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Torbay |13 |0.80 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Torridge and West Devon |25 |1.98 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Totnes |19 |2.05 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Truro and St. Austell |24 |1.93 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wansdyke |24 |1.17 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wells |26 |3.74 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |West Dorset |22 |1.69 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Westbury |27 |1.54 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Weston-Super-Mare |12 |1.00 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Woodspring |9 |0.70 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Yeovil |8 |0.44 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Grand total |874 |79.81 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Constituency name |Count of loan amount|Sum of loan amount (£ million)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bath |20 |0.87 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bournemouth East |11 |0.95 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bournemouth West |14 |2.05 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bridgwater |8 |0.71 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol East |18 |2.24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol North West |9 |0.64 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol South |6 |0.45 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Bristol West |26 |3.42 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cheltenham |21 |1.99 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Christchurch |13 |1.43 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cotswold |13 |0.66 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Devizes |18 |1.05 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Devon |6 |0.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Exeter |20 |2.32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Falmouth and Camborne |9 |0.78 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Forest of Dean |7 |0.48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Gloucester |12 |0.74 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Kingswood |18 |1.85 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Mid Dorset and North Poole|9 |0.55 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Cornwall |28 |1.71 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Devon |16 |1.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Dorset |9 |0.66 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Swindon |6 |1.76 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North Wiltshire |12 |1.47 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Northavon |16 |1.30 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Plymouth, Devonport |11 |1.60 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Plymouth, Sutton |26 |1.55 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Poole |12 |1.21 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Salisbury |12 |1.01 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Somerton and Frome |16 |0.77 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South Dorset |9 |0.48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South East Cornwall |14 |2.14 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South Swindon |12 |2.09 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West Devon |23 |3.24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |St. Ives |12 |0.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Stroud |19 |1.16 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Taunton |15 |1.21 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Teignbridge |5 |0.16 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tewkesbury |20 |1.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Tiverton and Honiton |25 |2.58 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Torbay |10 |0.60 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Torridge and West Devon |18 |1.60 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Totnes |16 |1.96 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Truro and St. Austell |21 |1.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wansdyke |18 |0.81 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Wells |22 |3.23 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |West Dorset |20 |1.61 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Westbury |21 |1.00 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Weston-Super-Mare |8 |0.70 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Woodspring |8 |0.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Yeovil |6 |0.37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Grand total |744 |66.38 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------