List of privatizations in the UK and Ireland

privitisation

United Kingdom
British Telecom
British Steel
British Gas
British Airways
British Airports Authority
British Petroleum
British Rail
Cable and Wireless
British Leyland - privatised piecemeal as Rover Group, Jaguar plc, Leyland Trucks, Leyland Bus, Istel, Unipart, Alvis plc, and numerous other companies, some of which have since recombined
Royal Aircraft Establishment - partial privatisation
Water industry (England & Wales)
Electricity Industry
British Coal Industry
Air Traffic Control system
Over two million council-owned houses sold to their tenants
Her Majesty's Stationery Office - HMSO - Partial privatisation
British Technology Group (now BTG plc)
Thomas Cook (1972)
National Bus Company
Scottish Bus Group
Many municipal bus companies (local authority owned)
Passenger Transport Executive owned bus companies
London bus operators
Rolls-Royce plc
British Shipbuilders
British Aerospace
The Independent Broadcasting Authority's engineering (transmitter) department (privatized as Network Transcommunications Ltd, now NTL)

British Aerospace
Cable & Wireless
Amersham International
Nov 1 Britoil
Associated British Ports
Ju Enterprise Oil 1
Jaguar
British Telecom
British Ga
Rolls-Royce
British Airports Authority
British Steel
Regional Water Companies
Electricity Distribution Companies
National Power and PowerGen
Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro Electric

The UK government had a record of supporting privitisation, but the trend has given way to the idea of allowing each nation to decide their won issues. In 2004 the Department for International Development (DFID) launched a public consultation on aid conditionality. British NGOs claim this is in reaction to their pressure to stop UK aid being made conditional upon privatisation, trade liberalisation or any other macroeconomic conditions.

Ireland

Irish Steel - transferred ownership to Ispat, firm bankrupt, no longer exists.
Irish Sugar

British and Irish Steampacket Company Limited - sold to Irish Continental

Irish Life - sold to Irish Permanent
TSB Bank - sold to Irish Life & Permanent
ACCBank - sold to Rabobank
ICC Bank - sold to Bank of Scotland
Irish National Petroleum Corporation - all assets sold to ConocoPhillips, still exists in law

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