HC Deb 19 December 1991 vol 201 cc239-40W
Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each trust port those parties which have expressed an interest in purchasing the respective trust port.

Mr. McLoughlin

No. That is a matter of commercial confidence between the trust port authority, as vendor of the port undertaking, and the parties concerned.

Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give an update of those trust ports which have lodged a scheme with his Department as required by the Ports Act 1991.

Mr. McLoughlin

The situation remains as stated in the answer which I gave the hon. Member on 12 November 1991, at column431.

Ms. Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give full details of those bids which the trust port authority is recommending the Secretary of State to accept.

Mr. McLoughlin

The only trust port authority which has as yet recommended a bid for my right hon. Friend's consent is the Tees and Hartlepool port authority, in respect of a bid from Teeside Holdings Limited. Details of that bid were set out by my right hon. and learned Friend in his answer of 18 December to my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Devlin).