Credit Where It's Due

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Duration: 30 minutes

Business dragon Theo Paphitis asks if the banks and the government are doing enough to help Britain's 4.7 million small businesses survive the recession. Providing jobs for some 13 million people, they are currently going bust at a rate of 120 a day, according to the Federation of Small Businesses.

In a bid to stop the rot, the government says it has ordered the banks to be more supportive, but what is really happening? Are Britain's small firms are getting credit where it's due?

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Tue 3 Mar 2009 01:35 BBC One only on Wales

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  • About Credit Where It's Due

    Business guru and Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis finds out why small businesses are having such a hard time as the economy slides

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  • Theo Paphitis' top business tips

    Business guru and Dragon's Den star Theo Paphitis, who has been reporting on small businesses for Panorama, gives his top tips for running a business

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  • Lord Mandelson on measures to help small businesses

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    Business Secretary Lord Mandelson speaks to Panorama about what the government is doing to encourage lending to small businesses.

  • Returning banks to the heart of the community

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    Cambridgeshire businessman Nigel Brown hopes to ease the effects of the economic crisis in his area by creating a small, independent bank to better serve local business needs. Panorama went to Cambridge to ask people running businesses there what they thought of the idea.

  • Theo hears of one small business owner's financial woes

    Sean Reed owns a business selling music and film copyright. It is his second enterprise, the first having folded leaving him owing money. Rather than file for bankruptcy, Sean chose to set up a new business to pay off his debts. Theo Paphitis speaks to him about what he did after being refused extra borrowing by his bank.

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Jeremy Vine
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Theo Paphitis

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