HC Deb 02 March 1993 vol 220 cc83-4W
Mr. Peter Bottomley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which commercial organisations in which Government have a controlling or total ownership, do not have external financing limits.

Mr. Portillo

A list of the organisations subject to formal external finance limits appears in table 6 of the "Cash Limits 1991–92 Provisional Outturn" White Paper (Cm 2010). A number of others do not have formal external finance limits, but their external finance is controlled within the framework of the new public expenditure control total. These organisations are included in table 4.16 of the statistical supplement to the autumn statement (Cm 2219).

The following commercial bodies, in which Government have a controlling or total ownership, are not treated in either of the ways described above:

Central government trading bodies:

  • Driving Standards Agency
  • Export Credits Guarantee Department
  • Forestry Enterprise
  • Horserace Totalisator Board
  • Housing Corporation
  • Housing for Wales
  • Industrial Training Boards
  • Remploy Ltd

Other

  • Bank of England
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • British Nuclear Fuels PLC
  • Channel Four Television Corporation
  • International Military Services
  • Commission for New Towns and
  • New Town Development Corporations in Scotland