That's why we have proposed a new National Loan Guarantee Scheme to get lending going.

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That's why they proposed tax cuts for savers and are pushing a National Loan Guarantee Scheme to help the banking crisis.

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Former Labour Treasury Minister Lord Barnett asks about the government's new loan guarantee scheme, announced to his displeasure, in a written statement.

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Other questions were on the recent escalation of violence in Nigeria, when the Chilcot committee will report on the admissibility of intercept evidence, and how the government's loan guarantee scheme will work.

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Both want to expand an existing government loan-guarantee scheme and to set tougher net lending targets for the nationalised banks.

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