§ Mr. McQuarrieasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report all nationalised industries, whether 360W statutory corporations, companies, or trading bodies of any sort, in which the Government now have any financial interest or for which they may make financial provision, in whole or part, for which he is the sponsoring Minister; and if he will list all subsidiaries or divisions of those industries which may carry on business under a different name from that of the parent nationalised industry.
§ Mr. LuceSuch bodies for which my right hon. Friend is responsible are the Commonwealth Development Corporation, the Crown Agents and the Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board.
The subsidiaries of the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the Crown Agents are listed in their annual accounts for the year 1982, copies of which are in the Library of the House. Since the year end the Crown Agents have participated, through a 51 per cent. shareholding, in the formation of Crown Agents Philatelic Corporation, incorporated in New Jersey, USA.
The subsidiaries of the Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board are:
- Four Millbank Investments Ltd.
- Four Millbank Securities Ltd.
- English & Continental Property Company Ltd.
- English and Continental Homes Ltd.
- English and Continental Investments Ltd.
- GCA Capital Corporation Ltd.