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The Forum of Private Business (FPB) is a support organisation that represents 25,000 small and medium-sized businesses across the UK. We have launched this petition because our members are suffering increasingly from restricted access to finance, and from banks increasing their charges and changing their terms.

The actions of the banks are having a direct and negative impact on the ability of small businesses in the UK to survive the downturn.

Restricted lending means that firms which are struggling due to the economic downturn are having to consider re-structuring, which is contributing to levels of unemployment. This, in turn, affects the economy, as people tighten their belts and reduce their outgoings.

The FPB will continue to monitor the situation, and pressure the Government and the banks to deliver on their obligations, but we also want to petition the Prime Minister to ensure that the banks fulfil their part of the agreement.

Current signatories

Phil Orford, Chief Executive of the Forum of Private Business, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/NHS-dentists4all/)
• Sally Pigdon
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Andrew Hart
• Ben Parish
• Maylis Foster
• Eleanor Nelson
• Richard Gunn
• Paul White, Marshfield Bakery Ltd
• laurie clark
• Nick Groves
• Terry Bann
• robert wall
• Lynne Randles
• Lynn Willrich
• Michael Kirkbride
• Jonathan jobe
• JACQUI TATNALL
• Michael B. Park
• Martin Raxworthy
• Les Harrogate
• Henry Roberts
• Mark Williams
• Jeremy Clayton
• Barry Neil
• Nigel Blain
• Jon Taylor
• patrick sandberg
• Robin Titterington
• Paul Gorton
• Bernard Walton
• Rachel m Rodman
• CHRISTINE HOGG
• Brian MCEntee
• Paul Kirby
• Lindsey Adam
• Elaine Tweedie
• Michael Paul
• Christopher McHugh
• Adrian Jarratt
• David J Bretel
• Jogen Roy
• RICHARD BROWN
• Dee Tormey
• Philip Bedford
• graham peers
• Vincent Caldicott
• Ben Hudson
• Bill Summerscales
• B A SHIRTLIFF
• Mike Andrews
• Gary Cooke
• Michael Bushnell
• Karen Deed
• tom falconer
• Robert Graham Nalty
• Melvyn Sutherland
• William Hawksworth
• Gerry Millar
• John Smith
• Dr. N. Cheese
• JAYNE STAMATIOU
• Marie Edwards
• Anthony Muir
• Jane Bennett
• NEIL MILLAR
• Susan Martin
• James Morley
• Leslie Cupitt
• Phil Deacon
• Clinton Green
• Dominic Walmsley
• David Chesters
• Ainslie Friel
• David Wyld
• David Shaw
• John Davies
• Rebecca Muir
• PETER IZOD
• J W Filor
• gaynor sinar
• Arthur Webber
• Lucy Meakin
• Lawrence Baker
• Hayley Stephens
• A C Williams
• Dan Fleming
• Richard Smedley
• GJ DE VISSER
• Margaret Phillips
• Peter Moore
• timothy Rhodes
• Phil Phillips
• Richard A Copland
• richard monk
• Geoff Cox
• K.M.Chetwynd
• Patrick York
• Alan Baker
• George Le Hunte
• William McLoughlin
• David de Vere
• DENISE COLLIER
• Kenneth White
• Lorna Williams
• Tim Williams
• Mare Gould
• Nadia Arden-Scott
• galya aytac
• Valerie Coker
• Bryan Grant
• Carolyn Cook
• Ian Humphries
• Steve Cottrell
• Paul Eaton
• Nigel Richards
• Michael Spooner
• Derek Gander
• chris dell
• Robin Packham
• John Prater
• PETER Friedmann
• Robert Webster
• glen dickson
• Cyril Jones
• KENNETH GRAHAM SHELTON
• Leonard Stevens
• David Harries
• Brian Varney
• Alan Mather
• Trevor Butt
• Michael Nicholls
• C DELLAR
• Derek Smith
• george mcdade
• Stuart Peters
• Peter Warren
• Veronica Lithgow
• Richard Baldwin
• Maria Dorothy Elefteria Gager
• peter eyre
• Cathie MacDiarmid
• Richard W A Brough
• jackie scorah
• Lynn Ashton
• Christopher Newberry
• Keith Reeds
• HelenT M Budge
• Sandra Wrath
• Karen Myers
• Nicolas Dreyfus
• Catherine Heapy
• Janice Kirkpatrick
• Sue McAvoy
• David Willmington
• Kate Hutchinson
• Graham Canning
• Jay Martin
• Peter Bennett
• Margaret Clarkson
• rudolph porter
• Peter Knights
• Rosemary Parr
• Edward Huggins
• Gary Bridgewood
• Anne Eyles
• Mervyn Gray
• Beverly Round
• Ged Barnett
• Ashleigh Varkevisser
• Peter Elliot
• REBECA FERNANDES LONDON
• Rhona Varkevisser
• Phil McCabe
• steve wedd
• SCOTT BERTRAM
• Andrew Lambert
• Jeff Swales
• Carol Ann Guilford
• Michael Kaptur
• John Coleman
• david hawksworth
• Jenny Goss
• Sara Jane Spratt
• Roger Piepenstock
• Robin John Orchard
• Michelle Jones
• C A HASPEL
• Nick Barnett
• Peter T E Hawkins
• Jonathan Barnett
• Patricia Smillie
• Andrew Sargent
• Graham Twist
• Julie Buckle
• David Jones, Fit-ex Ltd
• K J Wallace
• dOMINGO cASTRO
• Angelique Schultze
• Anthony Cummings
• Catherine Howarth
• Ian Birch
• Graham L Parkin
• Lorraine Lillywhite
• Terry Conlon
• Douglas Piercy
• Peter Boneham
• brian chivers
• Adrian Haler
• Terry Rogerson
• Don Osawaru
• Geoff Fry
• Keith Drennan
• Anne Ferguson
• Johnathan Bennett
• Thomas Parry
• Kathryn Claydon
• David Gore
• Jonathan Britton
• Geoffrey Hart
• Neil S Dowie
• Rory Speirs
• Peter Hayton
• Janet Colledge
• Graham David Bower-Wood
• Sue Jordan
• Lesley Athey
• Cheryl Hogan
• James Millar
• Emma Sturgess-Lief
• M. Wilton-Cox
• Tanya Harris
• Simon Walters
• David Marshall
• Craig Pearson
• Gordon Sockett
• Nick Palin
• Stephen Scott Luke
• Martin Kavanagh
• Gillian Edwards
• David Warner
• callum Bulmer
• John Quinn
• James Pressley
• Anthony Gregory
• Adrian Wright
• Paula Goodall
• william docherty
• Artin Moussavu
• Ian Black
• John Barton
• Thomas Royston
• Leslie Leighton
• Sathyaram Sannasi
• Emily Poucher
• Briony Adams
• Kerri Leow
• Gavin Wheeldon, petitions.number10.gov.uk/CashAccounting/
• Helen Pople
• MARIE MURDOCH
• Penny Ellis-Nunn
• graham johnstone
• Stephen Roberts
• Martin Gallagher
• THE BANKS,BAILED OUT BY THE TAXPAYER,SACK ALL THE GREEDY FATCATS.
• Mark Wilkinson
• james Wilson
• James Cannell
• Gordon Hazelton
• Stewart Edwards
• Thomas Fishwick
• emily butler
• ben anderson
• Benjamin Braidwood
• Michael Trigg
• dave jones
• David Hines
• sandy maclennan
• Stephen Aleck
• Julian Hawksworth
• Nina Cruttenden
• Graeme Murphy
• Andrew Pearson-Gee
• Deborah Edwards
• Rodney Ballard
• Keith Baker
• John Parks
• Robert Watson
• C Skinner
• Nigel Legg
• Hugh Routh
• Nigel Reynolds
• Ann Pinnington
• Katie Lee
• Tahira Evans
• Charles Hodson
• mark yapp
• Jan Crawford