National Enterprise Board
The National Enterprise Board (NEB) was a government agency in Great Britain . It was in 1975 by the Labor -Regierung under Harold Wilson founded with the aim of more industrial companies in public ownership to bring . The first proposals were summarized in the white paper The Regeneration of British Industry and regulated in 1975 in the Industry Act . One of the NEB's first pieces of work was the Ryder Report on the Future of British Leyland Motor Corporation , named after the NEB's first president, Sir Don Ryder.
After the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, took power in 1979, the NEB's influence began to wane. The last President appointed by the Labor Party, Sir Leslie Murphy, resigned with his entire leadership team when the new Secretary of Industry, Sir Keith Joseph , removed responsibility for the government's stake in Rolls-Royce from the NEB .
The next president was Sir Arthur Knight, who was content to divest several companies but was a strong supporter of the Inmos project. Nevertheless, he resigned in November 1980, disappointed in the government. His successor, Sir John King, proceeded to terminate most of the agency's activities. In 1981 the NEB was finally merged with the National Research Development Corporation to form the British Technology Group . In 1991 the British Technology Group was privatized.
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- Florian Mayer: On the decline of the entrepreneurial state: privatization policy in Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany , VS Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-531-14918-0
- Geoffrey Philip Wilson: Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law , CUP Archive 1976, ISBN 0-521-09959-5
- David H. McKay, Andrew W. Cox: The Politics of Urban Change , Taylor & Francis 1979, ISBN 0-85664-436-6