West Lothian has the highest rate of successful Start Up Loans applications per adult in Scotland, laying its claim to being the country’s most entrepreneurial local authority area.
Analysis by the British Business Bank found that people between the ages of 18 and 65 in West Lothian secured 279 loans from its Start Up Loans programme; totalling £2.16m of funding.
This gave it the highest loan to adult population rate in Scotland, at 2.4 per 1,000 since the scheme began in 2012.
