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Public Assets (Sale)

Volume 973: debated on Tuesday 13 November 1979

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asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total value of public sector assets that still have to be sold in 1979–80 to achieve his objective of total sales of the value of £1 billion.

Public sector assets to the value of £310 million have been sold so far in the current financial year, leaving £690 million to achieve the Government's £1 billion target in 1979–80.

actions with overseas central banks. All these items included in column (3) represent a form of "intervention". It is not the practice to identify market intervention separately.

Further disposals are in hand and the results will be announced shortly.