Mr. Sedgmoreasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list in the Official Report the names of all those companies for which the Treasury has consented to dividend increases in excess of the statutory norm since April 1973.
§ Mr. Joel Barnett, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 2nd December 1976; Vol. 921, c. 236], gave the following information:
As provided in S.I. 621 of 1973 the names of all companies which have obtained Treasury consent to declare ordinary dividends in excess of the statutory limitation have been published regularly in the London, Edinburgh and 291W Belfast Gazettes and in the Financial Times since April 1973.