I Don't Feel Comfortable With Luxury, And

Small- And Medium-sized Businesses Need Access To A Diverse Range Of Finance Options, Including Non-bank Lending. These New Forms Of Finance Are Still Small In Scale Today But They Should, Over Time, Bring Additional Choice And Greater Competition To The Lending Market.

The Real Problem At The Moment Is That The Banks - Because Of Their Existing Culture, Which Is Frankly Anti-business, Obsession With Short-term Trading Profits, Not Focusing On The Long Term - Are Throttling The Recovery Of British Industry.

We Have Sectors Of The Economy, Aerospace Is A Good Example, Where Britain's Probably The Second Country In The World, The Automobile Sector, Where We've Done Extraordinarily Well, An Enormous Amount Of Investment Over The Last Couple Of Years, Life Sciences Is Another.

Much Of The Shadow Banking Sector, A Major Contributor To The Economic Crisis, Was Also Only Possible Because Of Taxhaven Secrecy.

My Job Is To Support Businesses, That Means Promoting British Commerce In The Big Emerging Markets That Have Been Neglected In The Past. It Means Keeping Britain Open To Inward Investors, Trade And Skilled Workers. It Means Cutting Red Tape Which Is Suffocating Growing Companies Which Create Jobs.