The big outstandingquestion for the Treasury, therefore, is whether it is prepared to expose taxpayers to the probability that some businesses and households, who may deserve to be kept afloat, would not be able to repay all of what they owe.
The devil will of course be in the detail, and one outstandingquestion is how ruthless the banks will be in restricting redress to those small businesses that are so small that they are the equivalent of retail customers in the FSA's rules.