Hi
Thanks very much for your reply. I got it sorted in the end (atlhough i'm a little confused as to why, and will do some further investigations)
the fix was adding the vpn-instance within my VTY ACL.... previously it was just the source subnet alone, but this was working for telnet, just not ssh which seems odd. My config is essentially as below, telnet worked with rule 5 configured, but ssh didnt work until i added rule 10. I would have thought that telnet would not have worked either in the first instance with this being the case...
interface LoopBack1
ip binding vpn-instance <vpn-instance>
ip address y.y.y.y. 255.255.255.255
acl basic x
rule 5 permit source x.x.x.x
rule 10 permit vpn-instance <instance> source x.x.x.x