'All options' open to increase bank lending
The government is considering "all options" to ensure that banks offer loans to small businesses and families, Downing Street has said.
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Purnell rejects call to delay welfare plan
Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has rejected calls for a delay to new measures to get the jobless into work or face benefit cuts.
Whitehall 'loses one computer a week'
The Conservatives have called for an urgent review of security across Whitehall after it emerged that government departments have lost an average of one computer a week in the last year.
Tim Loughton MP
ePolitix.com speaks to Tim Loughton MP about children's safety and the Conservative Party's policies on the prevention of child abuse in anticipation of World Child Abuse Prevention day on 19 November 2008
End Child Poverty Campaign

Legislation planned on child poverty target
ePolitix.com Stakeholders comment on news that the government will enshrine in law the target of abolishing child poverty by 2020.
ePolitix.com speaks to John Penrose MP about the End Child Poverty Campaign
John Penrose talks about his role as the Conservative champion for the Campaign
Interview with Kerry McCarthy
The Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy
tells ePolitix.com about her work with the End Child Poverty Campaign
Blog with MPs
ePolitix.com has asked a group of MPs to give their views on the campaign to end child poverty
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