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* Northern Rock (Asset Management) plc (03273685) (art. 18, SI 2008/432) | * Northern Rock (Asset Management) plc (03273685) (art. 18, SI 2008/432) | ||
* Northern Rock plc (06952311) (art. 19, SI 2009/3226) | * Northern Rock plc (06952311) (art. 19, SI 2009/3226) | ||
==Companies wholly owned by the Crown== | ==Companies wholly owned by the Crown== |
Revision as of 16:41, 21 January 2010
6. Publicly-owned companies.
— (1) A company is a “publicly-owned company” for the purposes of section 3(1)(b) if— (a) it is wholly owned by the Crown, or (b) it is wholly owned by any public authority listed in Schedule 1 other than— (i) a government department, or (ii) any authority which is listed only in relation to particular information. (2) For the purposes of this section— (a) a company is wholly owned by the Crown if it has no members except— (i) Ministers of the Crown, government departments or companies wholly owned by the Crown, or (ii) persons acting on behalf of Ministers of the Crown, government departments or companies wholly owned by the Crown, and (b)a company is wholly owned by a public authority other than a government department if it has no members except— (i) that public authority or companies wholly owned by that public authority, or (ii) persons acting on behalf of that public authority or of companies wholly owned by that public authority. (3) In this section— “company” includes any body corporate; “Minister of the Crown” includes a Northern Ireland Minister. | |
Statutelaw.gov.uk. |
This section makes some but not all companies in public ownership subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
The definitions of "wholly owned" here are substantially the same as the definitions of "wholly-owned subsidiary" in the Companies Acts.
Until recently, a company had to have at least two members, so a lot of publicly-owned companies have one share held on behalf of the parent authority by its chief executive or similar.
Various companies wholly owned by the Crown are deemed not to be publicly-owned companies for the purposes of section 3(1)(b), including:
- Northern Rock (Asset Management) plc (03273685) (art. 18, SI 2008/432)
- Northern Rock plc (06952311) (art. 19, SI 2009/3226)
Companies wholly owned by the Crown
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Royal Mail Holdings plc (04074919) [holding company]
- Royal Mail Group Limited (04138203)
- iRed Partnership Limited (06259932)
- PostCap Guernsey Limited
- Post Office Limited (02154540)
- Royal Mail Estates Limited (05770587)
- Royal Mail Investments Limited (03229377) [holding company]
- General Logistics Systems B.V.
- Royal Mail Group Limited (04138203)
- SITPRO Limited (04188890)
Ministry of Defence
- Admiralty Holdings Limited (04561727) [holding company]
- SeaZone Solutions Limited (not on the main list) (04969561)
- Admiralty Deutschland GmbH [holding company]
Department for Transport
- BRB (Residuary) Limited (04146505)
- Directly Operated Railways Limited (06950819)
- East Coast Main Line Company Limited (not on the main list) (04659708)
HM Treasury
- UK Financial Investments Limited (06720891)
Companies wholly owned by other schedule 1 authorities
Local government
Blackpool Borough Council
- Blackpool Transport Services Limited (02003020)
Cardiff Council
- Cardiff & Co Limited (06246680)
- Cardiff Business Technology Centre Limited (02074331)
- Cardiff City Transport Services Limited (06040752)
East Cambridgeshire District Council
- East Cambridgeshire Business Centres Limited (not on the main list) (03819801)
Halton Borough Council
- Halton Borough Transport Limited (01994122)
Ipswich Borough Council
- Ipswich Buses Limited (02000058)
Newport Council
- Newport Transport Limited (01997971)
Norfolk County Council
- Norse Group Limited (05694657) [holding company]
- Norfolk Environmental Waste Services Limited (02633546)
- Norse Commercial Services Limited (02888808)
- NPS Property Consultants Limited (02888194)
Plymouth City Council
- Plymouth Pavilions (06772949) [dormant]
- Theatre Royal (Plymouth) Limited (01560651)
Reading Borough Council
- Reading Transport Limited (02004963)
Rossendale Borough Council
- Rossendale Transport Limited (02004970)
Warrington Borough Council
- Warrington Borough Transport Limited (01990371)
Educational institutions
University of Cambridge
- Cambridge Enterprise Limited (01069886)
- Cambridge Investment Ltd. (06484697)
- IFM Education and Consultancy Services Limited (03486934)
- Cambridge Program for Industry (Australia) [incorporated in Australia]
- Cambridge University Technical Services Limited (05749230)
- The Challenge Fund Trading Company Limited (03878072)
- Fitzwilliam Museum (Enterprises) Limited (01375977)
- JBS Executive Education Limited (not on the main list) (05908393)
- Lynxvale Limited (not on the main list) (02424721)
- Cambridge Examinations, Inc. [incorporated in the USA]
- Mill Wharf Limited (not on the main list) (02783745)
- Oxford and Cambridge International Assessment Services Limited (01838486)
- Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations (02424721)
- RSA Examinations Board (02808087)
- Sandonian Properties Limited (02601758)
- The West Midlands Examinations Board (01464835)
- Cambridge Global Grid for Learning Limited (04691393)
- Cambridge Knowledge (China) Limited [incorporated in Hong Kong]
- Cambridge Printing Services Limited (05846590)
- Cambridge University Press (Greece) EPE [incorporated in Greece]
- Cambridge University Press (Holdings) Limited (04606950) [holding company]
- Cambridge University Press Japan KK [incorporated in Japan]
- Cambridge University Press South Africa (Proprietary) Limited [incorporated in South Africa]
- ELT Trading SA DE CV [incorporated in Mexico]
- United Publishers Services Limited [incorporated in Hong Kong]
Christ's College, Cambridge
- Christ's College Enterprises Limited (04751229)
Churchill College, Cambridge
- Churchill Conferences Limited (not on the main list) (02843117)
- Churchill Residences II Limited (not on the main list) (03800360)
- The Møller Centre for Continuing Education Limited (not on the main list) (02746545)
Downing College, Cambridge
- Downing Cambridge Conferences Limited (06199733)
- Downing College Developments Limited (03698474)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- Blue Lion Limited (02772480)
- Evansgate Limited (01497911)
University of Durham
- Durham University Conference and Tourism Limited (03008538)
- Mountjoy Research Company Limited (02723759)
University of East London
- Knowledge Dock (UEL) Limited (03576958)
University of Manchester
University of Oxford
- The Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust (03020745)
- Isis Innovation Limited (02199542)
- Oxford Limited (02503801)
- Oxford University Farm and Woodland Limited (01605550)
- Oxford University Fixed Assets Limited (02219889)
- Voltaire Foundation Limited (02944166)
University of Warwick
- Research-TV Limited (02787728)
- Warwick Conferences Limited (02944166)
- Warwick University Training Limited (02446501)
Other: general
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
- DairyCo Limited (06408727)
Civil Aviation Authority
- Air Safety Support International Limited (04104063)