This repo includes data used in a Nov. 24, 2021 investigation from Bloomberg News, “Millions in U.K. Covid Loans Went to Inactive or Brand-New Firms”.

Data was obtained from the European Commission’s online data portal at https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/competition/transparency/public/search/home?lang=en on Nov. 6, 2021. Except for creating two columns with currency labels, no additional changes to the data were made.

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. For further details visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/#

The provided data should be attributed consistent with CC BY 4.0 and identified as European Commission data obtained by Bloomberg News. If the data is used in an online story, the source line should also include a link to this repository.