Format:
1 online resource (673 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415692212
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9780203122143
Series Statement:
Government Official History Series
Content:
This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997
Note:
Cover -- The Official History of Privatisation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbrevations -- List of figures, tables and plates -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. The Privatisation Programme by June 1987 -- 2. On To The Next Stage - Privatisation and the 1987-92 Government -- The economic and political context -- The Community Charge, Thatcher's resignation and Major's election -- Once more into recession -- Deregulation and privatisation: the background -- The BP share offer -- The Next Steps initiative -- Market testing -- Public private partnerships -- Smaller privatisations - property sales and government agencies -- The National Engineering Laboratory -- The Tote -- James Mackie - a near nationalisation -- The welfare state -- 3. Privatising The British Airports Authority -- The decision to privatise -- Rethinking the structure -- Ministerial disagreements -- The Airports White Paper and the Airports Act -- The flotation -- 4. Privatising British Steel -- Manifest crisis -- Disposals and joint ventures -- Continuing problems and the future of Ravenscraig -- A difficult privatisation -- The flotation -- And afterwards -- 5. Privatising British Leyland -- Reluctant support -- Jaguar -- Commercial vehicles, Land Rover and Leyland Bus -- Unipart -- Austin Rover -- No redemption -- 6. Privatising Girobank, The Trust Ports and Short Brothers -- Girobank -- The trust ports -- Short Brothers -- 7. Privatising the Water Industry in England and Wales: Early Planning -- The structure of the water industry under public ownership -- The decision to privatise -- Opposition to the White Paper -- The plans resubmitted -- Addressing remaining challenges -- 8. Regulating the Water Industry -- The basic structure -- The price cap -- Setting the K factors -- 9. Water Privatisation Achieved -- Arranging the flotation -- Settling outstanding issues
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BR under the first two Thatcher Governments -- Full privatisation emerges -- The White Paper and the Railways Bill -- 17. Privatising the Railways: A Privatisation too Far? -- Franchising the TOCs -- The ROSCOs and engineering -- Freight and parcels -- Railtrack -- Regulation -- The legacy -- 18. Reviving the Goose -- Eighteen years of privatisation -- The results -- Appendix: Major Privatisations July 1987-April 1997: A listing of the principal advisers -- Notes -- References -- Index
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Marketing the sale -- The flotation -- Post sale developments -- 10. Privatising of the Electricity Industry: The Origins -- The electricity industry pre-privatisation -- Electricity privatisation: initial ideas -- The decision to privatise -- Fresh impetus and the White Papers -- The Electricity Act -- 11. The Failure to Privatise Nuclear Generation -- Protecting nuclear energy -- The mounting back end costs -- The privatisation unravels -- Nuclear withdrawn -- 12. Creating Electricity Markets -- Administering the process -- The power pool -- The distribution and transmission contract arrangements -- Generation and supply contracts -- Competition in supply and concluding the generation contracts -- Regulation -- The distribution and supply price caps -- The transmission price cap -- The European dimension -- Employment relations and pensions -- Green issues and the implications of privatisation for the coal industry -- 13. Privatising the Electricity Industry: Capital Restructuring, the Sales and Later Developments -- Capital restructuring -- Organising the flotations -- Marketing the shares -- The employee share incentives -- Special shares -- Concluding the sale of the RECs -- Concluding the sale of National Power and PowerGen -- The sale of Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro-Electric -- Northern Ireland Electricity -- Later developments -- 14. Completing the Circle: Privatisation and the 1992-97 Government -- The citizen's charter, deregulation and market testing -- The private finance initiative -- Miscellaneous small privatisations -- The privatisation of British Energy -- The one that got away - the Royal Mail -- 15. Privatising the Coal Industry -- The perennial loss maker -- The ultimate privatisation -- The coal crisis -- The coal review -- Privatisation achieved -- 16. Privatising the Railways: From Rejection to Legislation
Additional Edition:
Print version Parker, David The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415692212
Language:
English
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