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This category is for "Companies Act companies", which are companies that are created under the 1985 or 2006 Companies Acts, and registered with Companies House as normal, but are fully or partly-owned by the UK Government. Other types of company should go into the relevant sub-category. Companies portal
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
NHS trusts were introduced in 1992, and their number, composition, form and naming has changed over time such that there are perhaps 1,000 distinct trust names in the literature; this list seeks to identify establishment, merger, dissolution and renaming events, and the succession of services from one name or trust to another.
This is a non-exhaustive world-wide list of government-owned companies. The paragraph that follows was paraphrased from a 1996 GAO report which investigated only the 20th-century American experience. The GAO report did not consider the potential use in the international forum of SOEs as extensions of a nation's foreign policy utensils.
Pages in category "Investment trusts of the United Kingdom" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pension trusts are the most economically significant kind of trust, totalling over £3 trillion worth of retirement savings in the UK in 2021. [117] Other forms of trusts in investment include mutual funds, unit trusts, and investment trusts though these are commonly organised as companies and hold money on trust for many people. Pensions are ...
In 2011 it was subsumed into Santander UK. Alliance Trust plc — is an investment and financial services company headquartered in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded in 1888 by the merger of 3 Dundee-based mortgage and loan companies: the Dundee Investment Company, the Dundee Mortgage and Trust Investment Company, and the Oregon and Washington Trust.
The following is a list of regulators in the UK. Regulators exercise regulatory or supervisory authority over a variety of endeavours. In addition, local authorities in the UK provide regulatory functions in a number of areas. Professional associations also act to regulate their memberships. The UK is also bound by a number of European and ...