§ Mr. SayeedTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which division of Westinghouse is now a part of BNFL. [16743]
§ Mr. WilsonIn March 1999 BNFL and Morrison Knudsen (MK) completed the joint acquisition of CBS's US nuclear services company, Westinghouse. The Westinghouse acquisition comprised two businesses: Energy Systems—which provided nuclear products and services in the US and internationally, and Government and Environmental Services—which managed and operated environmental clean-up programmes for the US Department of Energy and provided services to the US Department of Defense.
A new structure for Westinghouse was agreed; BNFL became a 100 per cent. owner of the Energy Systems business (renamed Westinghouse Electric Company), took a 40 per cent. economic interest in the 100 per cent. MK owned defence related portion of Government Services (renamed Westinghouse Government Services Company) and 40 per cent. ownership of the non-defence related Government Services business (renamed Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company), with MK owning the remaining 60 per cent.