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Bank of England plays down risk to Carillion's lenders

But bank says ripple effect of company going into liquidation is yet to be fully felt as fallout continues over construction group's collapse

Carillion liquidation 'sad day for Wolverhampton'

Lenders to collapsed construction and infrastructure group Carillion are not under direct threat, according to the Bank of England.

But the bank warned the ripple effects from the company going into liquidation were yet to be fully felt.

Treasury Select Committee chairman and Conservative MP Nicky Morgan questioned a panel of Bank of England representatives about the impact on financial services, following reports that some lenders could face hefty losses due to billions of pounds worth of exposure on its loans and debt.

Sam Woods, the bank's deputy governor for prudential regulation and head of the Prudential Regulation Authority, assured that he had checked the exposure data for banks and insurers but found little reason to be concerned.

He told MPs: "Those direct exposures are entirely manageable across all the institutions.

However, the secondary effects are not as easily measured.

"There's then the question of will there be a wider, indirect issue with suppliers and that's more difficult for us to get a handle on (but) I'm not massively worried about it."

Wolverhampton-based Carillion was placed into liquidation yesterday after struggling with debts of £900 million and a pension deficit of £590 million.