§ Baroness WOOTTON of ABINGERasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will list those companies in which they are a shareholder and to indicate in each case the proportion of the company's shares held.
§ The PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE, DEPARTMENT of the ENVIRONMENT (Baroness Birk)The following is the information, in the form requested:
Company Percentage of company's shares held by the Government Beagle Aircraft Ltd 100% British Channel Tunnel Company Ltd 100% British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. (a) 100% British Petroleum Co. Ltd. 51% (including the proportion held by the Bank of England) British Sugar Corporation 24.18% Drake and Scull Holdings Ltd. 7.76% Harland and Wolff Ltd 100% John Hastie and Co.Ltd.(in receivership) 63% John Hastie of Greenock (Holdings) Ltd. 47% Kearney and Trecker Marwin Ltd. 26.46% KTM Machine Tools (Holdings) Ltd. 77.78% Kintyre Farmers Ltd. 0.002% Marathon Shipbuilding Co. (UK) Ltd. 55.39% Mersey Docks and Harbour Co. 20.67% National Nuclear Corporation (a) 35% Norton Villiers Triumph Ltd. 21.56% Radiochemical Centre Ltd.(a) 100% Short Bros. Ltd. (b) 96.28% SB (Realisations) Ltd. 100% Suez Finance Co. Ltd. 7.76% Toplis and Harding (Middle East) Ltd. (in liquidation) 99.8% Triang Pedigree Ltd. 95% Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (in liquidation) 48.4% West Highland Crofters and Farmers Ltd. 0.017% Wolverhampton Industrial Engines Ltd. 2.4%
- (a) Shares are held by the Atomic Energy Authority on behalf of the Secretary of State for Energy.
- (b) 26.84% of the shares are held on behalf of the Government by SB (Realisations) Ltd.