Annual change in lending to business in the United Kingdom 2013-2020

The ongoing economic effects caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have seen the Bank of England forced into quantitative easing measures. The injection of new money supply to kick start the economy has seen a huge increase in lending to businesses in March 2020.The measure, which is taken after lowering the bank base interest rate to 0.1 percent on the 19th March 2020 has seen an annual change in loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) up approximately 24.2 percent as of October 2020.

由新冠疫情引发的持续经济影响迫使英格兰银行采取量化宽松措施。为刺激经济，向市场注入新的货币供应导致2020年3月企业贷款规模显著增加。自2020年3月19日将银行基准利率下调至0.1%之后，该措施使得截至2020年10月，中小企业（SMEs）的贷款年度变化率上升约24.2%。