Start up loan buy a business (4 figures)
The Government Backed Acquisition Finance carries 5 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 2 to 70 percent, read 28 October 2026.
6 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 28 October 2026.
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme | 54,000,000GBP | 2026-10-28 |
| British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme | 2,000,000GBP | 2026-10-28 |
| GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates | 150,000GBP | 2026-10-28 |
| British Business Bank: GGS launch (facility sizes) | 25,001GBP | 2026-10-28 |
| Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000 | 25,000GBP | 2026-10-28 |
| British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme | 70% | 2026-10-28 |
| GOV.UK: stamp duty on shares | 30day | 2026-10-24 |
| British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme | 10year | 2026-10-28 |
| Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000 | 7.5% | 2026-10-28 |
| Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000 | 5year | 2026-10-28 |
| GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates | 5% | 2026-10-28 |
| Bank of England: Bank Rate | 3.75% | 2026-10-23 |
| GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates | 2% | 2026-10-28 |
The sentence each figure was read from (13)
- British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme, read 2026-10-28:
In addition, annual turnover eligibility will increase from £45m to £54m, supporting a broader range of scaling and high-potential smaller businesses.
- British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme, read 2026-10-28:
maximum amount of a facility provided under the scheme is generally £2m per business group for borrowers outside the scope of the Northern Ireland Protocol, and up to £1m per business group for Northern Ireland Protocol borrowers Read footnote text Minimum facility sizes vary, starting at £1,000 for asset finance, invoice finance and asset-based lending, and £25,001 for term loans and overdrafts;
- GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates, read 2026-10-28:
Property or lease premium or transfer value SDLT rate Up to £150,000 Zero
- British Business Bank: GGS launch (facility sizes), read 2026-10-28:
Minimum facility sizes start at £1,000 for asset finance, invoice finance and asset-based lending, and £25,001 for term loans and overdrafts
- Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000, read 2026-10-28:
Borrow up to £25,000 (The average loan amount is £10,264) Fixed interest rate of 7.5% per annum (per year) Repay the loan over a term of 1–5 years
- British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme, read 2026-10-28:
The Growth Guarantee Scheme launched with accredited lenders on 1 July 2024, with a wide range of products supported by different lenders, including term loans, overdrafts, asset finance, invoice finance and asset-based lending. The Growth Guarantee Scheme can generally support facility sizes of up to £2m and provides the lender with a 70% government-backed guarantee.
- GOV.UK: stamp duty on shares, read 2026-10-24:
pay the Stamp Duty within 30 days of the stock transfer form being signed and dated
- British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme, read 2026-10-28:
The Chancellor has also announced that GGS will offer greater flexibility to support facility terms up to ten years for Term Loans and Asset Finance.
- Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000, read 2026-10-28:
Fixed interest rate of 7.5% per year
- Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000, read 2026-10-28:
Repay the loan over a term of 1-5 years
- GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates, read 2026-10-28:
Property or lease premium or transfer value SDLT rate Up to £150,000 Zero The next £100,000 (the portion from £150,001 to £250,000) 2% The remaining amount (the portion above £250,000) 5% If you buy a freehold commercial property for £275,000, the SDLT you owe is calculated as follows: 0% on the first £150,000 = £0
- Bank of England: Bank Rate, read 2026-10-23:
Our latest decision: Bank Rate held at 3.75%
- GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates, read 2026-10-28:
operty or lease premium or transfer value SDLT rate Up to £150,000 Zero The next £100,000 (the portion from £150,001 to £250,000) 2% The remaining amount (the portion above £250,000) 5% If you buy a freehold commercial property for £275,000, the SDLT you owe is calculated as follows: 0% on the first £150,000 = £0 2% on the next £100,000 = £2,000 5% on the final £25,000 = £1,250 Total SDLT = £3,250
Read in full, publishes no figure
4 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- British Business Bank: GGS additional capacity, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Start Up Loans: programme page, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- British Business Bank: NPIF II debt finance, read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Simply Business: GGS updated 2026, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
6 of the 8 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 4 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 96 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): scheme -> maximum facility, term, rate (fixed where the scheme sets one), guarantee, eligibility for a business purchase; Bank Rate beside them for the variable-rate lenders; stamp duty and SDLT on the purchase
96 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (11)
- British Business Bank: Growth Guarantee Scheme(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- British Business Bank: GGS additional capacity(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- British Business Bank: GGS launch (facility sizes)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Start Up Loans (British Business Bank): borrow up to £25,000(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Start Up Loans: programme page(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- British Business Bank: NPIF II debt finance(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: business finance support finder(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Bank of England: Bank Rate(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: stamp duty on shares(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK: SDLT non-residential and mixed rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Simply Business: GGS updated 2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Government Backed Acquisition Finance carries 5 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 2 to 70 percent, read 28 October 2026.
6 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 4 publish none, read 28 October 2026.
Cite as: "acquisitionfinancecalculator.co.uk Government Backed Acquisition Finance", updated 2026-10-29, https://acquisitionfinancecalculator.co.uk/datasets/government-backed-acquisition-finance/.
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