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18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
And, Kate, you're in a slightly different sector, obviously, but, for vulnerable people and people who are struggling, how innovative can you be?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
And we've heard some good stories from Richard and from Kate. But if I take it, if Rhianon will allow me, one step further, I suppose, and you've touched on it there in your answer, David: if we were making recommendations as to what could you do or how much…
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
We've heard a little bit, but David—. Yes.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
That's you done. Okay, I'll come over to Rhianon Passmore. Thank you, Rhianon.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Any further questions, Mike?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Kate, then.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
And because it's a 0 per cent loan, there's no incentive to pay that back early.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Back to Mike.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
It's nearly a tiding-over sort of loan, in very, very much layman's terms.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
And that loan was a zero-interest—
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Anything else, Richard?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Obviously, Kate, you’ve answered this quite a bit, haven’t you, but maybe you wanted to come in with a bit more.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
To David, or—
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Great. I'll bring in Mike Hedges.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
And was it dealing with officials, or did you deal with Ministers at all?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Was that more legal problems, or was it—? Two-and-a-half years is a rather long time to be involved. What were the barriers? Was it from the lender or was it more of the—?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you very much. I'll bring Peter Fox in, please. There we are, Peter.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
So, the payback term on that loan from the Government is quite short, then, is it, or—?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Okay. And then, I'm interested, with fair funding—. It's a little bit different, as you said, isn't it, Kate, with—. You had the guarantee as well as—. There's a bit of matching stuff together, then, for you. So, what was that process like, and what sort of…
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
And that was directly with the department.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Similar sort of—?
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
So, it wasn't badged up as anything.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
No, you just—. The bank had money, and then you had to go through their normal application process.
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
That you'd go through with any high-street bank, or any other—
18 July 2024Finance Committee
Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 2
Thank you. Great, okay. So, when you were applying for funding in different ways, either through the development bank or directly with Government, what sort of guidance had you had regarding the sort of application, or those conversations to understand what…