New particpants to the Scheme include The Co-operative Bank, Coventry Building Society, Tesco Bank and Newbury building society. [Full list can be seen below].

Seventeen of the 30 participants are building societies.

FLS Group	Certified lending to UK households and PNFCs (£mn)			Aggregate outstanding FLS drawings (£mn)
	Base stock of loans as at 30.06.12	Quarterly net lending flow Sponsored Introducing the Green Living Reward Your clients can now get up to £2,000 cashback for making energy-efficient home Sponsored by Halifax Intermediaries	Cumulative net lending status since 30.06.12
TOTAL	1,325,555	n/a	n/a	n/a
Aldermore	1,567	n/a	n/a	n/a
Arbuthnot Latham	507	n/a	n/a	n/a
Barclays	181,020	n/a	n/a	n/a
Cambridge BS	851	n/a	n/a	n/a
Clydesdale	33,172	n/a	n/a	n/a
Co-operative	31,768	n/a	n/a	n/a
Coventry BS	20,954	n/a	n/a	n/a
Cumberland BS	1,190	n/a	n/a	n/a
Hinckley & Rugby BS	433	n/a	n/a	n/a
Ipswich BS	412	n/a	n/a	n/a
Julian Hodge Bank	374	n/a	n/a	n/a
Kleinwort Benson	11	n/a	n/a	n/a
Leeds BS	7,569	n/a	n/a	n/a
Lloyds Banking Group	443,255	n/a	n/a	n/a
Manchester BS	569	n/a	n/a	n/a
Mansfield BS	213	n/a	n/a	n/a
Market Harborough BS	322	n/a	n/a	n/a
Metro Bank	78	n/a	n/a	n/a
Monmouthshire BS	629	n/a	n/a	n/a
Nationwide BS	152,155	n/a	n/a	n/a
Newbury BS	554	n/a	n/a	n/a
Newcastle BS	2,705	n/a	n/a	n/a
Nottingham BS	2,123	N/A	N/A	N/A
Principality BS	5,408	n/a	n/a	n/a
RBS Group	214,816	n/a	n/a	n/a
Santander	189,339	n/a	n/a	n/a
Skipton BS	9,494	n/a	n/a	n/a
Tesco Bank	4,826	n/a	n/a	n/a
Virgin Money	15,093	n/a	n/a	n/a
West Bromwich BS	4,148	n/a	n/a	n/a

Brian Murphy, head of Lending at Mortgage Advice Bureau said: “With 30 lenders now signed up to the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) it bodes well lending levels for next year. It’s too early to start talking about the scale of the impact but we have noticed that pricing has been moving downwards recently.”

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Mortgage Advice Bureau added the Bank of England should reconsider its criteria to enable non-banks to join the FLS.

Earlier this month, Precise Mortgages exclusively told Mortgage Solutions its plans to challenge the Bank of England to to convince it to change its criteria for mortgage lenders accessing the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS), which currently excludes non-banks.

Alan Cleary, managing director of Precise Mortgages said: “Unfortunately non-banks are excluded from the scheme probably as a result of [the government] not thinking it through fully. We have spoken to the Council of Mortgage Lenders and will be speaking to the Bank of England as to why non-banks are excluded.

“The unintended consequence of the FLS is that it puts FSA regulated non-banks at a significant disadvantage to deposit-taking lenders.”