HC Deb 31 January 1995 vol 253 c612W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will provide estimates for the total amount that has been paid to N. M. Rothschild and Sons Ltd. with respect to any work undertaken by it on privatisation programmes in which his Department, and the Department of Energy, has been engaged since 1979 after taking account of inflation.

Mr. Eggar

The following table lists the sales conducted by my Department, and the former Department of Energy, in which N. M. Rothschild and Sons Ltd. were appointed and the roles to which they were appointed. The fees paid to firms appointed within the privatisation programme are commercially confidential.

Table of appointments (year of sale in brackets) Adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry:

  • Cable and Wireless—feasibility study (1981)
  • British Coal (1994)

Adviser to the former Department of Energy:

  • Amersham International Ltd. (1982)
  • British Gas Corporation (1986)