UK COVID lending to businesses nears 50 billion pounds
Reuters
Published Jul 28, 2020 05:02AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks' lending to businesses under a government-backed COVID-19 loan scheme has risen to almost 50 billion pounds ($64 billion), while the cost of supporting furloughed workers has increased to 31.7 billion pounds, weekly finance ministry figures showed.
Lending across the government's three main programmes for small, medium and large businesses rose to a total 49.43 billion pounds as of July 26, up from 47.88 billion pounds the week before.
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which has supported 9.5 million jobs and is the costliest single government COVID relief measure, has risen to 31.7 billion pounds from 29.8 billion pounds a week earlier.
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