HC Deb 13 January 1981 vol 996 c940

Queen's Recommendation having been signified—

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make provision with respect to the disposal by the British Railways Board of part of their undertaking; to provide for the reconstitution of the British Transport Docks Board and the dissolution of the National Ports Council; and to make further provision for promoting road safety, it is expedient to authorise—

(1) the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
  1. (a) expenses incurred by the Minister of Transport in connection with the dissolution of the National Ports Council, so far as those expenses do not exceed by more the £1.5 million the sums received by the Minister by virtue of the vesting in him of the assets of the Council; and
  2. (b) any administrative expenses incurred by any government department in consequence of the provisions of that Act;
 (2) the extinguishment of the liabilities of the British Transport Docks Board to the Minister in respect of—
  1. (a) the Board's commencing capital debt; and
  2. (b) loans made to the Board by the Minister;
 (3) the payment of any sums into the National Loans Fund or the Consolidated Fund.— [Mr. Boscawen. ]