Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of UK domestic lending by banks to UK businesses.

The Bank of England publish information about UK lending in its monthly Money and Credit statistical release. As of March 2018, the Bank of England estimates that outstanding lending to UK businesses by monetary financial institutions, which includes banks, was £359.3bn and outstanding lending to households was £1,376bn.