asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the shareholdings held by the National Enterprise Board on
| Company | Number and description of shares held by NEB | Percentage of nominal value and total equity | Cost (£'000) | Stock Exchange closing price on 22nd January where available | ||||||
| Barrow Hepburn Group Ltd | 1,000,000 25p Ordinary | … | … | 4·1 | 450 | 30p | ||||
| BL Ltd | … | … | … | 1,144,554,026 50p Ordinary | … | … | 98·9 | 695,523 | 20p | |
| Brown Boveri Kent Ltd | … | 10,856,585 25p Ordinary | … | … | 20·0 | 3,293 | 49p | |||
| Bull Motors Ltd | … | … | 1,020,000 £1 Ordinary | … | … | 100·0 | 1,020 | |||
| BTB (Engineering) Ltd | … | 30,000 £1 Redeemable Preference | … | Not equity* | 30 | |||||
| RR Chapman (Sub Sea Surveys) Ltd | 50,000 £1 Ordinary | … | … | … | 47·2* | 50 | ||||
| Computer and Systems | 349,750 5p Ordinary | … | … | 49·9 | 882 | |||||
| Engineering Ltd. | 15,200 £1 Redeemable Preference | … | Not equity | 48 | ||||||
| Ferranti Ltd | … | … | … | 10,666,666 50p Ordinary | … | … | 50·0 | 6,993 | 323p | |
| Hird-Brown Ltd | … | … | 250,000 £1 Redeemable Preference | … | Not equity* | 250 | ||||
| ICL Ltd | … | … | … | 8,148,000 £1 Ordinary | … | … | 24·4 | 12,134 | 430p | |
| Monotype Holdings Ltd | … | 25,000 10p Ordinary | … | … | 37·5 | 250 | ||||
| Negretti & Zambra | … | … | 960,000 25p Deferred Ordinary | … | 29·8 | 710 | 73p | |||
| 460,622 £1 Redeemable Preference | … | Not equity | 461 | |||||||
| Pakment International Ltd | … | 23,230* £1 Ordinary | … | … | 34·4 | 47 | ||||
| 200,000 £1 Redeemable Preference | … | Not equity | 200 | |||||||
| Sinclair Radionics Ltd | … | 75,000 £1 Ordinary | … | … | … | 73·3 | 650 | |||
| 200,000 £1 Preference | … | … | ||||||||
| 3,800,000 £1 Redeemable Preference | Not equity | 3,800 | ||||||||
| Technical Resources (equipment) Ltd | 36,750 £1 Ordinary | … | … | … | 24·5 | 37 | ||||
| 200,000 £1 Redeemable Preference | … | Not equity | 200 | |||||||
| * These items are corrections to the statement of 15 November 1978. | ||||||||||
asked the Secretary of State for Industry if he will list the members of the National Enterprise Board and their declared financial interests.
The present members of the board are:Sir Leslie Murphy.Mr. Richard Morris.Mr. David Basnett.Mr. Alistair Frame.Mr. John Gardiner.Mr. John Lyons.Mrs. Caroline Miles.Mr. Hugh Scanlon.Mr. Harry Urwin.Sir Jack Wellings.
24 January 1979, showing the number and description of the shares, the percentage of the total equity held by the National Enterprise Board, the cost of the shareholding and, where appropriate, the market value of the shareholding at close of business on 24 January 1979.
The reply I gave the hon. Member on 15 November 1978—[Vol. 957, c. 222–226], needs to be updated, and at four points corrected, as follows:The latest published information on members' financial interests is set out in Appendix C of the board's annual report and accounts 1977. A copy is in the Library.