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...Mr Tookey’s revelation of Lloyds’ target for this year came after the bank made a fresh pledge to lend £12bn to SMEs in 2012....
...John Leech TREASURY (Andrew Tyrie) – John Cryer, Andy Love, John Mann, George Mudie, Chuka Umunna. Michael Fallon, David Rutley, Andrea Leadsom, Jessie Norman. John Thurso....
...John McFall, chairman, said it was essential his committee received such information so it could monitor the lending agreements that the government has signed with Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking...
...However George Mudie, Labour MP for Leeds East, told Mr Hornby and Lord Stevenson: “At the end of the day, you sacked your group risk fellow....
...“We didn’t bring you here, contrary to what the press think, to have a public humiliation,” George Mudie, the MP for Leeds East, told the bankers halfway through the session....
...Questions over to George Mudie now: “Was there a rescue bid from Lloyds TSB, and was it put to the chancellor as advisable and acceptable and did he reject that?”...
...Mudie: “Your loyalty is heartening” 11:55am More Mudie: “You downplay a Lloyds TSB approach. Adam Applegarth [NR CEO] said to the committee that an approach was in its final stages.”...
...George Mudie, Labour MP, said he wanted to find out whether Northern Rock executives had spurned an offer by Lloyds TSB, which had been talking to the lender in the days before it received Bank of England...
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