HC Deb 19 December 1983 vol 51 c31

Mr. Secretary Heseltine, supported by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Tebbit, Mr. John Moore and Mr. Geoffrey Pattie, presented a Bill to make provision for the transfer to a company or companies of certain property, rights and liabilities to which Her Majesty or a Minister of the Crown is entitled or subject and which are attributable to the operations of the royal ordnance factories; to make provision for the transfer of property, rights and liabilities between such companies or from them to the Secretary of State or Her Majesty; to make provision about the finances of such companies and about investment in them and their subsidiaries; to make provision for the extinguishment of certain liabilities concerning the royal ordnance factories; to make provision for the payment out of money provided by Parliament of certain sums required by the Secretary of State in relation to International Military Services Limited; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed [Bill 78].

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