The Treasury has set aside £12bn which it believes will help underwrite £130bn of new mortgages.
Mr. Vilar has also pledged to underwrite 10 Metropolitan Opera productions at about $2 million apiece.
The presentation briefly describes a "Global Fellowship Program" under which Medtronic would spend $1.5 million over three years to underwrite 18 fellowships in Australia and elsewhere.
Nextel decided to underwrite "9/11" to show solidarity with firefighters and other public emergency officials, said Audrey Schaefer, a spokeswoman for the company, which is based in Reston, Va., and is controlled by the billionaire Craig McCaw.
A member of the board of the Metropolitan Opera since 1995, he contributed $25 million to the company's endowment fund, and he has pledged to underwrite 10 Met productions, at about $2 million apiece.
Chancellor George Osborne met major housebuilders and mortgage lenders to flesh out plans to underwrite £130 billion of mortgage lending with state guarantees - including banning second home buyers and people with property abroad.
The initiative by McAslan comes after the government has agreed to underwrite £1bn in loans to the private sector in Tottenham and funding has been agreed to quadruple the number of trains from the deprived north of the area to the international hubs of Stratford and Liverpool Street.
The first accounts produced after Harding's retirement from BNFL were held up for many months: when finally published, they were stamped with a rare warning from the company's auditors that they could be rendered invalid because the Tory government had removed a pledge to underwrite £17 bn worth of reprocessing contracts.
Postal officials say a major reason for the postal service's financial crisis — it has lost $20 billion over the last four years — is a 2006 law requiring the post office to pay an average of $5.5 billion a year for 10 years to underwrite 75 years of health coverage for future retirees.
"There has obviously been a significant amount of money raised and I reiterate that Kids'n'Cancer were prepared to underwrite £100,000 to pay for Ashya King's treatment.
Just 24 hours after the first press reports that the program was running out of money, the House hastily approved a $2 billion extension designed to underwrite 500,000 more sales.
