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Answered by
Gordon Brown (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
22 July 1999
Reference
335 c1310-1
House
House of Commons
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, What evaluation he has undertaken of the use made of the windfall tax on the privatised utilities.
Asked by
Michael Clapham (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Date
22 July 1999
Reference
91093; 335 c1310-1
House
House of Commons

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list those publicly-owned assets which the Government proposes to (a) privatise and (b) reconstitute as publicly-owned corporations run on commercial lines during the next four years. - Includes refs to 11 June 1998, 313 c1195-215, 11 June 1998, and Economic...

Asked by
Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 July 1998
Reference
315 c341-2W; 48064
House
House of Commons

To ask the Prime Minister, if he will introduce measures to make Ministers liable for losses to the taxpayer if public assets are sold at less than their market value.

Asked by
Lynne Jones (Labour)
Answering body
Prime Minister
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 March 1998
Reference
33610; 308 c449-50W
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, if he will list the assets transferred to the Road Transport Industry Training Board on its privatisation. - Inc table.

Asked by
Gordon Prentice (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education and Employment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 November 1997
Reference
16680; 301 c339W
House
House of Commons

If he will publish the asset management plans produced by each water company at the time of privatisation. - No. The water companies' asset management plans contain commercially confidential information.

Asked by
Helen Jackson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 January 1996
Reference
7557; 269 c212W
House
House of Commons

What is his estimate of the asset value of the nuclear energy industry in Scotland. - Such estimates are a matter for the companies concerned; information on asset values is contained in their annual reports and accounts.

Asked by
Lord McFall of Alcluith (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
5 May 1995
Reference
259 c340W
House
House of Commons

What are the current capitalisation values of (a) British Telecom, (b) British Steel, (c) British Gas, (d) the privatised water industry, (e) the privatised electricity industry, including the distribution element, ie Powergen and National Power and (f) the coal industry. - Includes table and fact that the capitalisation of the...

Asked by
Bill Olner (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 February 1995
Reference
254 c660-1W
House
House of Commons

What mechanisms he will apply to ensure that the assets of the coal industry are not packaged in a different way to its liabilities.

Asked by
Michael Clapham (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 November 1994
Reference
250 c22W
House
House of Commons

If he will publish those numbers of individual shareholders retaining shares in each of the concerns privatised since 1979, indicating where Her Majesty's Government has retained a shareholding. - Table given.

Asked by
Bob Cryer (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
9 December 1993
Reference
234 c312-4W;234 c308-10W
House
House of Commons

What is the total value of assets transferring to the ownership of Railtrack on 1st April 1994.

Asked by
Brian Wilson (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 December 1993
Reference
234 c135-6W;234 c133-4W
House
House of Commons

If he will list for each year since 1980-81 the level of the PSBR; what was the contribution of the sale of assets in each year; and what were the main sources of these asset proceeds. - Table given.

Asked by
Clive Betts (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 June 1993
Reference
226 c612-4W;226 c608-10W
House
House of Commons

What has been the effect since 13th January 1987 in terms of the retail price index of (i) privatisation, (ii) intervention by Government to raise the rate of return on sales and capital in the public sector and (iii) increases in indirect taxation excluding rates etc., and (iv) reduction of...

Asked by
Austin Mitchell (Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 May 1993
Reference
225 c162W;225 c160W
House
House of Commons

How many British Rail employees will be transferred to the employment of Railtrack; which assets currently owned by the British Railways Board he proposes to transfer to Railtrack. - It is too early to say. Railtrack will not be established as a Government-owned company until April 1994.

Asked by
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 May 1993
Reference
225 c90W;225 c88W
House
House of Commons

If he has any plans to privatise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company; what estimate of asset proceeds he has made. - No plans to privatise the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company.

Asked by
David Atkinson (Conservative)
Answering body
Northern Ireland Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 May 1993
Reference
224 c511-2W
House
House of Commons

What plans he has to privatise London Regional Transport; what estimate of asset proceeds he has made.

Asked by
David Atkinson (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 1993
Reference
224 c380W
House
House of Commons

What estimate he has made of asset proceeds from the privatisation of British Coal.

Asked by
David Atkinson (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 May 1993
Reference
224 c397W
House
House of Commons

If he will make it his policy to publish an inventory, on a regular basis, of the locomotive, wagon, and rolling stock assets of each proposed passenger franchise and provide the same information for freight services. - Inc fact that inventory for BRs existing passenger profit centres was published in...

Asked by
Teresa Gorman (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 January 1993
Reference
216 c863W;216 c865W
House
House of Commons

What powers he has to allow locomotive, wagon and rolling stock manufacturers to acquire surplus British Rail assets for sale/lease to private sector operators in advance of franchising legislation receiving the Royal Assent.

Asked by
Teresa Gorman (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 January 1993
Reference
216 c863W;216 c865W
House
House of Commons

What steps he is taking to ensure that British Rail does not scrap locomotives, wagons and rolling stock which could be acquired by the private sector (a) for operations in advance of franchising routes and (b) for refurbishment to create a second hand market in advance of refurbishment.

Asked by
Teresa Gorman (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
15 January 1993
Reference
216 c863W;216 c865-6W
House
House of Commons