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NET business loans increased by 300 million pounds in August, a slight improvement after the fall of. 5bn ￡ 2 July, according to monthly trends in Bank loan report.

However ready business was still low on one year contracts 5 4pc.

Availability of credit for small businesses - often a source of criticism aimed at banks - usually "remains difficult" even if it improves for large enterprises.

Mortgage data was less encouraging, with recent surveys, pointing to a stagnation of counting housing market.

Six largest lenders - Santander, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide and RBS - dropped to a minimum of 17 months of 44,000, mortgage approvals to a peak of 61,000 last November.

Consumer net has dropped from ￡ 100 m, support the view that people become more and more reluctant to saddle themselves with debt in an uncertain economic context.

Effective interest rates on credit cards and overdrafts margined, reflecting the concerns of the lenders on the risk.

"The general tone of the report makes little to dilute the concerns conditions persistent credit crunch continue to pose a serious handicap to economic activity," said Howard Archer, an economist at IHS Global Insight.

Report keeps the pressure on the Bank of England to revive easing quantitative program of pump money into the economy by buying assets cash newly printed he added.

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